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...past four years the Crimson golf team has won the Greater Boston Golf Championships without too much trouble. The golfers may do it again this year, but they face a stiff challenge from the M. I. T. Beavers, who placed second in last year's tourney...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: M. I. T. Presents Challenge Golfers to Defend Boston Title | 4/21/1970 | See Source »

Racing conditions were hardly ideal. A stiff crosswind and cold weather made the Charles a miserable place...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Both Crews Win Easily in Saturday Races | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...stiff breeze off the Charles blew marijuana smoke and kites through the air as thousands of people gathered yesterday behind Watson Rink to celebrate the Earth People's Festival of Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grass is Green at Festival | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...varsity race, Harvard beat Brown by more than five boat lengths, and Rutgers by about seven. Battling a stiff headwind during the entire race, the Crimson covered the 2000-meter course in a slow...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: Heavyweights Open Season By Topping Brown, Rutgers | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

Herbert Schnabel's tastes run to handmade gold cuff links. He drives a Soviet-built Chaika, the same make as Communist Chief Walter Ulbricht's. He probably earns about $125,000 a year (before stiff taxes) as president of Lucie Kaiser K.G., near Leipzig. East Germany's largest semiprivate women's fashion firm, it employs 370 workers, has annual sales of $3,000,000 and exports 65% of its product, for which Schnabel has won the Medal of the German Democratic Republic. Schnabel dates his prosperity from 1960 when, to raise capital for expansion, he sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Capitalists Among Communists | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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