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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just how a new version of an old, if farsighted, television series will be treated at the box office next Christmas is also a puzzling question. Despite the immense success of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, science-fiction movies are often a fragile film commodity whose only sure audiences are cult enthusiasts. To make a profit, Star Trek must reach out far beyond them. Monsters aside, that may be the most difficult enterprise confronting the creators of the starship Enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Treat for Trekkies | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Sylvia Field Porter, 65, syndicated financial columnist and author; and James F. Fox, 61, New York City-based public relations executive; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan. Porter, whose daily column appears in over 400 papers worldwide, once earned a compliment from a White House reader. "Why, goddammit," Lyndon Johnson thundered, "can't these economists talk straight like Sylvia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 15, 1979 | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...Saturday's opening event, the 400-yd. medley relay, co-captain Maura Costin countered with a victory in the 400-yd. individual medley (5:02.44). Costin, threatened for only a short while in the freestyle by Dartmouth's Janet Dixon, led throughout the race. Julie McAree picked up a third and the visitors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquawomen Submerged, 81-50, In Another Disappointing Meet | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...third year in a row, the Huskies' depth and strength proved too much for the reading period-depleted Harvard team which fell, 80-56, Saturday...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Crimson Thinclads Suffer First Loss As Northeastern Coasts to 80-56 Win | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Northeastern proceeded to take the number one and two spots in the hurdles, and second and third in both...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Crimson Thinclads Suffer First Loss As Northeastern Coasts to 80-56 Win | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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