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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fogg, which received the award last month, plans to use the funds to organize a group of corporate sponsors to meet rising operation costs, Suzanna J. Doeringer, deputy director of the Fogg said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Art Museum Receives Funding For Rising Costs | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

Making spectacular use of her overhead smash and strong net game, Martha Roberts captured the third slot, bettering Laura Weissman, 6-4, 7-6, in what turned out to be the decisive match for the Crimson...

Author: By Panos P. Constantinides, | Title: Raquetwomen Stop Tufts Jumbos, 5-4, In Grudge Meeting | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

This blend of new and old was apparent at the Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, where we saw mammoth carp that had been raised from tiny fry in the center's ponds. One innovation: the use of female hormones to encourage spawning. But the biologists there also adhered to the Maoist maxim to "change wastes into treasures and turn harmful into beneficial." They feed the fish animal and even human wastes (after fermentation to kill fecal parasites). Elsewhere, the Chinese are introducing "digesters" (small tanks) that convert biological wastes into methane gas, which in turn powers electrical generators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New Long March for China | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Baltimore Manager Earl Waver, whose use of pinchhitters played a large part in Saturday's come-from-behind, 9-6 victory, yesterday started his ace pitcher, Mike Flanagan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pirates Crunch Orioles, 7-1; Series Returns to Baltimore | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...about the place of innovation on the Shakespearean stage. No one would argue for a theater of sterility, shunning all new ideas as "deviations from the author's intentions." But when you have a competent group of performers, and at least one actor of stature and brilliance who can use a play like Lear as a personal vehicle, it seems a cheat to squander the resources on half-baked ideas, directorial interpretations that aren't followed through, and "innovations" that clash with each other. Cain should either have moved in and molded a Lear to his liking, or sat back...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Not the Promis'd End | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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