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...walks down Arthur Avenue, pointing to it as an example of an "area of strength" in the South Bronx. It is the commercial heart of a small Italian community called Belmont in the northern part of the South Bronx, with a residential vibrancy that will make it a springboard for the area's revitalization...

Author: By David H. Feinberg, | Title: Beyond Charlotte Street | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

Schramm's springboard triumph capped a career progression which saw him place eighth as a freshman, fifth as a sophomore, and second last season in this meet...

Author: By John S. Bruce, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquamen Capture Advantage In Opening Day of Easterns | 2/29/1980 | See Source »

...real world. Invariably, as happened with Peter Weir's The Last Wave, the characters are sacrificed in order to explore the realm of the imagination. Yet however fascinating this theme might be to a director, it must be remembered that the "normal" characters in the film are the springboard into this mystical world. If such characters are one-dimensional, the audience is left with no horizon line against which to judge the increasingly strange happenings...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Screaming Bloody Murder | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

After taking the medley relay by half a pool length, the Crimson swept the first four individual events. It was not until the one-meter diving that Columbia recorded its first victory, when Lion springboard ace Mike Gurnee edged the Crimson's Steve Schramm...

Author: By John S. Bruce, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Aquamen Torpedo Columbia | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

That prospect is upsetting to the Carter Administration, and not just because of this country's abiding, almost sentimental "special relationship" with its former colony.* Washington is concerned about preserving the Philippines as its main military springboard in the Far East. In return for $500 million in military assistance over the next five years, the U.S. by treaty has "unhampered use" of the huge (97 sq. mi.) naval facility at Subic Bay and Clark Air Force Base on Luzon. Those installations face Indochina across the South China Sea. They played an important role in the Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Powder Keg of the Pacific | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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