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Though most critics gave the dictionary good marks, some argued that the Random House or Merriam-Webster dictionaries were better all-round books. The publishers do not brood over criticisms. Besides, the graduation season will soon begin, and that is one of the best-selling times of the year for the men who market dictionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: The Selling of a Dictionary | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Last week Santa Barbara County Sheriff James Webster reported a different version: as his men began moving into the area around the bank to disperse the students, one cop's rifle went off accidentally, the bullet ricocheted off the ground and may have killed Moran. To dispel any whitewash charges, Webster promised a televised inquest into the death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Second Version | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

After Landolt had put in a goal after picking the ball out of a scramble just in front of the cage to tie the game, 1-1, Cornell's Mark Webster scored the first of six consecutive man-up goals by his team on a quickstick right in front of Cosentino...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Powerful Cornell Routs Stickmen, 13-6 | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

Using double cuts, which Harvard's defense is not designed to stop, especially when shorthanded, Cornell sent Mark Webster, Bob Shaw, and Bill Molloy among others, in for close shots on Cosentino. Only a number of fine saves-Cosentino finished with 19-kept the score from being even more lopsided...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Powerful Cornell Routs Stickmen, 13-6 | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...Penn game, no Harvard player scored more than once, John Ince, Phil Zuckerman, Cabie, Warren, Rick Frisbie, and Regan were the men other than Landoit to score for Harvard. Webster, seeking to repeat as league scoring leader and as a first-team All-American, led Cornell's attack with four goals and an assist...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Powerful Cornell Routs Stickmen, 13-6 | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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