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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent upsetting development is the rise of the super-stadia, of which Houston's Astrodome was the forerunner. In contrast to the old, idiosyncratic parks like Wrigley Field in Chicago, and Fenway Park in Boston, these new futuristic monstrosities are sickeningly bland in conception, and utterly miserable places to watch baseball. One of the worst is Anaheim Stadium in Southern California, which I had the misfortune of visiting last summer. The game was a beauty; Frank Tanana of the Angels and Catfish Hunter of the Yankees locked in an extra-inning duel. But as is the fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Angell in the Outfield | 6/14/1977 | See Source »

...doing and thinking about if half my dorm were girls. I wouldn't have gotten any work done!" he muses. When he and his wife visited a student in the Quad last year, he found Cabot Hall "excruciating." He was amazed to greet an undergraduate in her slip and watch her stroll into a bathroom occupied by several men. "It was like seeing a woman walk into a men's room in a restaurant," he said; "I can't get used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apologetic Leftists and Cambridge Slush | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

Living this way, for the tax exile, also means pads in Beverly Hills and Long Island, as well as a 53-acre estate in New York's Westchester County. Life hasn't changed that much, he insists: "I still watch a lot of TV and play with the dogs." Frampton," whose melodic soft-rock Frampton Comes Alive! won him Rolling Stone's 1976 "Artist of the Year" award, has a newly released album I'm in You and will embark next week on a four-month tour. He is also starring in a movie version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hot New Rich | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

...police interviewed him that night, Lowe never volunteered that he saw the murderer. But Lowe kept worrying about what he knew and felt that he had a responsibility to speak up. "I didn't feel it was safe for my kids on the street. Did you ever watch a horror movie? You'd be sleeping, and then parts of that movie would come back and scare you? Well, this was the same way. I'd be trying to sleep, and I would see that face. I was always looking behind me, looking for a car to pull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Perils of Doing Your Duty | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...campus residence. Brewster was later sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The man who administered the oath of office: Cyrus Vance, his old friend and as Secretary of State, his new boss, who had interrupted his talks at Geneva to fly back at his own expense to watch his son Cyrus Vance Jr. graduate with the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 30, 1977 | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

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