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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Arlington Engineer Bobbie R. Beller has not given up the Unknown Soldier project. Recently, Seller said: "We hope there won't be one, but . . . it's pos sible that one will be found in a final sweep of the battlefield." Seller added: "If not, the tomb will not be used." Perhaps, given the special agony and futility of the Viet Nam War, some sort of monument should be erected to the men who died there - known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: The Known Soldiers | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...piano records of the year. Liszt's Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor or Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto requires a fusion of talents comparable to those of an expert novelist who is also a master of the sonnet. Bolet's combination of intricate line and bold sweep is just such a fusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: LPs: Nature and Art | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...American Civil Liberties Union and the Unitarian and Methodist Churches. They won 17 delegates. "No wonder the Democrats can't carry Kansas," says Stearns, a 27-year-old Rhodes scholar. "There's something wrong with a party organization if they can't prevent a delegate sweep by a bunch of college kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Battle for the Democracy Party | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...unhappy inventory last week: No one can block McGovern's nomination, and if McGovern is nominated, he cannot win in November. His only chance would be to abandon the South and Border states, shift his positions to regain the moderate, middle-ground Democrats and hope somehow for a sweep through the Eastern industrial states-Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania-plus Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Alternate Democratic Visions | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

WHEN JOE RESTIC arrived in Cambridge last fall, fresh from the wide-open Canadian pros with a fat playbook full of tricks under his arm, many Harvard fans, thoroughly bored by a decade of John Yovicsin's dive, sweep, incompletion offense, breathed a sigh of relief. But their relief soon became boredom again in the opening game, as Restic's man-in-motion, multiple set offense produced a paltry ten points against a Holy Cross team that had not won a game in almost three years (a performance that looked even more pathetic three weeks later when Syracuse stepped...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: The Restic Style: Paradise Lost After Priming on Classic Comics | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

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