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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson was not without opportunities of it own. In the opening minute, Sanacore did his slingshot impersonation and heaved a throw-in toward the center of the field: After a couple of passes, Mike Mogollan crashed a shot that bounced off the left upright...

Author: By David A. Wilson, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cornell Tips Booters, 1-0, After Double Overtime, 105-Minute Tense Contest | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

...allotted the Olympics only 64 hours. Next summer, to get back its $87 million, NBC will throw out almost everything else on its schedule for two weeks and devote 150 hours to events in Moscow. In 1984 ABC plans to raise the total to 200 hours. It will also have a tune advantage in Los Angeles that NBC will not have in Moscow: the West Coast is three hours behind the East, so daylight events will attract viewers in the East during prime-time hours. By that time, viewers may have ODed on athletics and turned to reruns of Laverne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Big Game | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...worth of tritium into 55-gal. drums. To the infiltrators the plant appeared "sloppier and worse than anticipated," Babbitt said. Company officials retorted that the hubbub was "like a Nazi camp in there." They called Babbitt's action "absolutely crazy" and accused him of having chosen "to throw law to the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Tritium Chocolate Cake | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...meaning that the light detected at Kitt Peak had left the objects 10 billion years ago), and both were receding from the earth at two-thirds the speed of light. What was most unusual was that they were only some 150,000 light-years apart-a stone's throw by cosmic standards-and had virtually identical light spectrums, which meant that their physical characteristics, as well as their velocities, were the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Mysterious Celestial Twins | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Everyone knows you can't think and make love at the same time." The resulting frustration, she said, might lead to "increased vandalism and other types of misbehavior." In fact, she said, once while driving past a Hyannis motel with amber lights, she "wanted to scream, run and throw rocks through the windows." But she restrained herself because she is "61 and self-contained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Highlights | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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