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Meanwhile, undefeated defending Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis League champion Princeton tore through Columbia, 9-0, to set up the confrontation with Harvard on May 9. The Crimson lost to Columbia this season, 8-1, but can still grab a piece of the title if is upsets the powerful Tiger squad, throwing Harvard, Princeton and Columbia into a three-way tie for first place...

Author: By James E. Mcgrath, | Title: Tennis Tops Big Red, Cadets; Will Contest Princeton for Title | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...Doug Lamear urged the Blazers to exchange one famous vegetarian for another by trading Walton "for Euell Gibbons and a six-pack of carrot juice." That just might be a good deal. Walton, who missed 47 of the Blazers' 82 games this season because of a foot injury, tore ligaments in his left ankle during a pickup basketball game last week and was reassigned to a cast for the offseason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 28, 1975 | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...escaped from one of the suddenly lost provinces of South Viet Nam, "but panic set off panic." The flight seemed to overtake everything in its path, engulfing military commanders as well as shopkeepers, peasants and schoolteachers. It uprooted entire towns and villages overnight, causing even greater fear. It mercilessly tore families apart and destroyed the trust and friendship that had been built up between individual Americans and Vietnamese during the past decade. It implanted only one compelling, overriding desire in the minds of its victims: to flee, then flee again until they were safe beyond the fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indo-china: WHY THEY FLEE | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Disgusting-your recent cover. I tore it off and threw it away all crumpled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Cher, to Place and Show | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...stretched an orange nylon curtain across a canyon in Colorado and called it art. I use this only as an example that a lot of people might recognize--there was a photo spread on the event in Life. The photo spread on the event in Life. The wind tore the curtain apart and that was called art too. This whole movement-of someone wrapping up the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in Christmas paper and a big bow, or of the Museum of Modern Art buying a hole in Connecticut for a substantial sum of money--is loosely called "conceptual...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: GALLERIES | 2/13/1975 | See Source »

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