Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That old cliche about winning the war but losing the battle was reversed again for the women's track team, as they fell to a strong Springfield College team, 75-52, yesterday at Harvard Stadium despite setting nine new University records...
...third dual meet in a row, Posey Bryan broke her own record in the 400, lowering it to 1:00.0. However, she was only able to claim second place as Springfield's Jo-Ann Fortier set a new Harvard Stadium record with a blazing...
...strangler's victims included a prostitute and a runaway, whose nude bodies were found tossed into wooded areas. His eighth and ninth victims, however, were twelve-year-old girls, school chums at a Catholic elementary school who disappeared while out shopping. The killer dumped their bodies near Dodger Stadium...
...bearded man in the picture 1) Ulysses S. Grant, 2) Rutherford B. Hayes, 3) Benjamin Harrison, 4) none of the above? Full credit for answering none. It's Marlon Brando, safely returned from the planet Krypton after all, and unexpectedly bewhiskered. Brando, appearing in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium for the Rev. Jesse Jackson's "Push for Excellence" rally, did not mention the new growth. He delivered a rambling homily about the American Indian, his favorite cause, and suggested that "sometimes, just staying alive is a push for excellence." Explained a Brando aide about his newly hirsute boss...
There's a marvelous photograph here, incidentally, of Maris returning to the Stadium on Old Timers' Day after a decade of bitterness, still wearing the aircraft-carrier haircut, arms spread wide to the applause. It stands out among the over 100 pictures, including some fine old shots of Ruth and Gehrig, which give this book the quality of a family picture album. The appendix lists the all-time Yankee statistical leaders and provides a game-by-game abstract of DiMaggio's streak and Maris's miracle year. And there's smooth writing throughout, particularly in Anderson's chapter...