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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northeastern in tough. Last year's indoor meet was of the razor edge variety, boiling down to the final two events--the relays. Harvard needed a sweep to win; Northeastern needed just one victory to protect its meager three point lead. It could have gone either way, but it went Northeastern's. The Huskies swept both events, winning the meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Team to Beat | 1/13/1978 | See Source »

Hart and Brian finished one-two in the 880, while in the hurdles, Hart and Fine finished second and third behind winner Susan Harper, for another Crimson sweep. Harper finished second in the long jump behind Karen Rice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Track Team Sweeps Bates | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...from the University of California at Berkeley and settled in as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, the prestigious Wall Street law firm. While there he became friendly with Royal Little, the New England businessman who was putting together Textron, one of the first conglomerates-those companies that sweep together the most wildly diverse businesses. Joining Textron at the invitation of Little, who warned him that he would be fired in a year if he did not prove his abilities, Miller became president in 1960 at the age of 35, chief executive in 1968 and chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miller: Nice Guy in a Hard Job | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...assassination. In 14 years the bureau compiled more than 80,000 pages of documentation. Half of that massive archive was released to the public last week following freedom-of-information lawsuits (see following story); the other half will come out next month. While the avalanche of paper will not sweep away all the doubts, mysteries and conspiracy theories, it leaves very much intact the verdict reached by the Warren Commission in 1964: Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, murdered Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The FBI Story on J.F.K.'s Death | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...Sola Mahoney opened the door a crack with a one-two Harvard finish in the long jump. A few minutes later, Harvard kicked the door in. Wayne Moore, Ralph Polillio and Joe Salvo swept the 60-yd. dash. Before the night was over the Crimson Harriers went on to sweep three more events and place the top two finishers in four others...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Trackmen Triumphant | 12/16/1977 | See Source »

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