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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game warmup before any women's basketball game will tell the whole story. You see the sanitary socks, pulled high and just below the knee, underneath the striped uniform socks. And then you see the shot. Not the jumping grenade-throw that the women hoopsters sometimes favor, but an easy-arching, back-spinning jump shot that usually doesn't bother with the backboard, much less...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: CARYN CURRY: Basketball Star 'Plays Like a Man,' But Sparks Rise of Women's Sports | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

Still, Dayan provided some hints that the Israelis were preparing to be conciliatory on the Palestinian issue. The Foreign Minister touched off a stormy debate both among Knesset members and in the country as a whole by suggesting that the Palestine Liberation Organization had a rightful role to play in the peace process. Said Dayan: "The P.L.O. is not a state, but we cannot deny its position or its value in the conflict and eventually, in order to reach a solution." P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat dismissed Dayan's words as a "Zionist tap dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Reassuring Some Friends | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...operation. The inveterate partygoer and dazzling conversationalist never drinks anything stronger than ginger ale. The carefree author cannot shake a persistent fear−certainly not of writer's block, or of ill health, or even of nuclear catastrophe. The man whose fiction has sent men and machines across whole galaxies, and through time in perhaps his most memorable single novel, The End of Eternity, refuses to board a plane. "Everybody has to worry about something," he muses. "Some people worry about sex. With me, it's jets." Which seems fair. After 200 books on every conceivable subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Women's squash captain Jennifer Stone '80 said yesterday, "As an individual, Cynthia had an incredibly optimistic way of looking at things. The whole team is really shook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Harvard Students Killed In Weekend N.Y. Plane Crash | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Penn had a lot of hot shooting the whole game; but if we had played anywhere near our best, we would have beaten them," junior Wendy Carle, who led the Crimson in rebounds with ten, said yesterday...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Women Cagers Fall to Penn | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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