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...away with three straight games-two of which were played in unfriendly Philadelphia. Last week they capped that performance by trouncing the Western champion Los Angeles Lakers 124-109 on the Lakers' home court, to capture the final playoffs by four games to two, and win their tenth N.B.A. championship in the past twelve years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Effortless Age | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

Junior Bruce LoPucki and senior captain Bo Keefe will be out to improve on their eighth and tenth place finishes last year...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Golf Team To Tee-off in Easterns; Harvard Seen as Threat for Title | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...mile, Royce Shaw and Jim Baker will continue their assault on the four-minute mile. Baker blazed to a 4:04 relay leg at Penn, while Shaw was timed a tenth of a second slower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Team Favored To Keep Boston Title | 4/30/1968 | See Source »

...WIZARD OF OZ (NBC, 7-9 p.m.). Dorothy and her friends travel the yellow brick road once more as the 1939 classic, always a favorite on television, gets its tenth screening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 19, 1968 | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

What the Mexicans christened marijuana (literally "Mary Jane") is a variable combination of female cannabis seed heads with leaves and chopped-up stalks. At best, say U.S. pharmacologists, the mixture is only about one-tenth as strong as hashish. Marijuana is illegally imported into the U.S., mainly from Mexico, either loose or in the form of pressed bricks, called "keys" (for kilos), weighing 2.2 lbs. Connoisseurs strain out the coarse stalks before rolling it into cigarettes or packing it loosely into long-stemmed, cooler-smoking pipes. For $5, anyone almost anywhere can buy enough through his office boy or teen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Pot: Safer than Alcohol? | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

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