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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thin Crimson crowd cheered when Fitzsimmons passed Flora's shoulder with a half-mile left, but Flora regained the lead with three laps left and finished in 8:56.6, a new meet record...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Harvard Gets Hustled by Two Breeds of Huskie... ...as Northeastern Halts Crimson Harriers, 65-53... | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Hughes would not be happy, however, if he could see the plane today-running under the fuselage is a thin, golden streak of leaked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Second Hottest Show in Town | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...message is that art may just be a big gimmick. Unfortunately, F for Fake, as a gimmick on gimmicks, soon begins to wear thin...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: H for Hype | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless and without a tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Nose Out of Joint | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...passed on the cheering news of the protest campaign being carried on for Bukovsky in the West. The prison grapevine quickly carried the news of Bukovsky's dramatic month-long hunger strike. Before and after his fast, Bukovsky, like other prisoners, received only minimal fare. Lunch consisted of thin gruel, while dinner was a watery, acid soup. Inmates also received ¾ oz. of sugar and 2 oz. of salted fish per day. "It's rotten fish," Bukovsky recalled. "I don't know what sea they catch it in, but I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXILES: Vladimir's Voice | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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