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...violent death he did. Certainly the abyss fascinated him. He sought the dangerous, the sordid, with passion. He loved New York because he saw it as "a war you go to to kill yourself." To Fallaci, he described a scene in New York that impressed him: "Yesterday, on 42nd St., I saw a man dying. He had a package in his hand. He tied it up and then hurled it on the ground so violently that the package broke. Then the man leant against the wall, slowly slid to the ground and stayed there, dying. No one stopped to watch...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Roman Crime of Passion | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

Freshman harrier Peter Fitzsimmons would have qualified for the nationals on an individual basis by placing 30th in the qualifying meet. As it turned out, according to Okerman, a UMass runner who placed 42nd in the qualifying meet behind Fitzsimmons was sent to the finals by his school, and garnered All-American honors on the basis of his performance in the finals...

Author: By Theodore A. Christopher, | Title: Harriers Forgo Competition in NCAA Finals As Athletic Department Tightens Budget | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

Hassan has reason to know. In his 14 years as monarch, he has survived three leftist plots to overthrow him and two military assassination attempts (one at his 42nd birthday party in 1971, when 98 guests were killed, and one a year later, when his official jet was strafed). The autocratic Hassan, who claims descent from the Prophet Mohammed, owes his survival to his skill at playing off one Moroccan faction against the other and rallying support through emotional appeals to the religious fervor of his 17 million subjects. The popular success of the march is a case in point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: Spectacular in the Sahara | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Other scorers for Harvard were Captain Bill Okerman, taking 36th place (26:32) and junior Jeff Campbell, claiming 42nd place (26:38). Sophomore Stein Rafto finished in 62nd place (27:29). The Crimson's final meet is the ICAAAA Championships to be held next week...

Author: By Theodore A. Christopher, | Title: Princeton Sweeps Heptagonals, Fitzsimmons Is All-Ivy Choice | 11/8/1975 | See Source »

...them anywhere else. Director Sgarro, in his offhand way, is suggesting that prostitution is a joyful business, marred only by those occasional raids by those mean, harrow-minded policemen who spoil all the fun. He's not remotely interested in the thousands of women who have turned tricks on 42nd Street for 5 bucks a shot, who have been beaten by the cops, their pimps, their johns, their boyfriends, and who will always be poor, Xaviera, always dressed in white, is the girl next door...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: The Prostitution of Prostitution | 8/8/1975 | See Source »

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