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Terrell's lop-sided three-game sweep concluded the three-day tournament in which Harvard humiliated the 25 participating teams by placing five men in the three division finals...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Terrell Wins Intercollegiate Squash Title | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

Gilmore dominated the game with 29 points, 26 rebounds, and 16 blocked shots. With its big men controlling the boards, Jacksonville worked its fast break frequently to run up the lop-sidel score...

Author: By Jonathan P. Carlson, | Title: Cagers Vanquish DePaul, Drop 5 Vacation Games | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...more than 40 Chinese divisions, totalling about 300,000 men. Over the past several months, the Chinese have become increasingly worried by reports in Western newspapers hinting that Moscow is considering a preventive strike against Peking's atomic-weapons plant at Lanchow and the nuclear testing grounds at Lop Nor, although Kosygin has dismissed such stories as "total nonsense." According to an Indian Foreign Ministry report, China now has begun moving its Lop Nor facilities south to Tibet -farther from the Soviet border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cool Confrontation | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...farther east, where the Amur and Ussuri rivers create a natural boundary, the 1,500-mile Sinkiang-Soviet frontier in many stretches is only vaguely demarcated. In addition, the area is the site of one of the most tempting targets in all of China: the nuclear testing grounds at Lop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Sinkiang: Where It Could Begin | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...Little Richard, 34, who powed them in '55 with his "Wop bop a loo bop ba lop bop bop-Tutti Frutti," is doing it all over again-notably last week in Manhattan's Central Park, where he ended up sharing most of his clothes with his admirers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Return of the Big Beat | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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