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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institutions resisted the temptation to follow national trends or to succumb to pressures, political, financial and Federal for complete coeducation total merger," she said. "They have thus given us an especially great opportunity for educational innovation...

Author: By Ann Juergens, | Title: Horner is Inaugurated, The Sun Shines | 11/18/1972 | See Source »

...about 40 of them hanging on the walls of my loft," he recalls. "Some of my friends saw them, liked them and even bought them. That's when I first got the idea of selling neon fixtures for use in the home." It took Partner Romanoff longer to succumb to neon, but now he too is an incurable addict. Recently he suffered through "this terrible old Ida Lupino movie because every nightclub they went into had these fantastic neon signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Neon: It's a Gas | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

However if any offensive linemen succumb to injuries this season Mclnally Howard Keene and ends will be running pass patterns for exercise while Restic's mans talented quarterback eat the football Restic calls the lack of depth in the offensive line his biggest problem" Standout tackle Monte Bowens is the only returning starter on the offensive interior line. Fortunately, last year's second string linemen saw a lot of action under the Restic system of giving under classmen a lot of playing time. The system made for some unhappy seniors, but now Restic is congratulating himself on his foresight...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Football Team Will Contend for Ivy Title | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...American public the question of how representative their convention actually was. They discarded the sole challenge to their master scheme in a resounding defeat, voting down by a 910 to 434 margin the Steiger Amendment for reapportioning delegate distribution at the 1976 Convention. They vowed not to succumb to quota representation: at auspicious moments, they passed before the cameras a sampling of youth, women and minorities to prove their "Open Door" policy, but they failed to provide for enlargement of those groups four years hence. In doing so, the Republicans seemed to say that in 1976, and for the forseeable...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: A Republican Roadshow Swamps Miami | 9/1/1972 | See Source »

...heterodox, rigidly disciplined Christianity of the Worldwide Church of God, that could mean anything. In Herbert Armstrong's theology, unknown to much of his public, the British and the Americans are among the ten lost Hebrew tribes, destined to fight -and succumb to-a renewed Holy Roman Empire probably led by Germany. Then a Chinese-Russian alliance will fight the battle of Armageddon with the victor. At first, Herbert Armstrong predicted the beginning of the end for the late 1930s. The most recent Apocalypse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Garner Ted Armstrong, Where Are You? | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

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