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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Updike, T.S. Eliot and Walter Lippmann all learned to write here--I can't wait to read the graffiti," he cracked...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Hope and Randall Joke at the Forum | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

Finley called the next day to say he could not write the month in the majors guarantee into the contract. It was just a legal technicality. Finley said. Mike still had his word on the deal...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Mike Stenhouse Meets Charles O. Finley | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

...which reconstructs in layman's terms the events that followed the Big Bang. It was an enormous success, both here and abroad, and has been translated into many languages. In fact, the book has sold much better in Germany than in the U.S. Glashow, who plans one day to write a book along the lines of his undergraduate course, finds this disturbing: "a better scientifically informed public would be far more capable of dealing with the scientific questions which now confront us--like nuclear energy." He has immense sympathy for the efforts of popularization made by those like...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: An Invitation To Stockholm | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...should get your number two, and so on, all the way up until 23. Many people give up after eight or nine names because votes are unlikely to be meaningful after that point. "People do all kinds of crazy things--they mark X's, they cross out names, they write slogans on the ballot," one election official explained recently, adding that any deviation from a legible number ranking invalidates a ballot...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Proportional Representation -- Voting By Number | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...several of the light-voting student precincts near Boston University and Northeastern, WBCN disc jockey Duane I. Glassock, running a write-in campaign as a joke to promote his radio show, may challenge the state senator for second place...

Author: By Dewitt C. Jones iv and Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, S | Title: The Road Ahead | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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