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...devotee of detective fiction knows, the most famous police station in the country is Author Ed McBain's 87th Precinct, where the cops are gruff, sentimental and occasionally fallible, but almost always good at their jobs. Fuzz is based on a blotter full of their exploits, but if the boys at the 87th ever see it, they'll have an open and shut case of criminal impersonation on their hands...
...Bennington Peers III called it just right in the program for last Saturday's 87th Harvard-Yale game. "Certainly Yale can hope," he wrote, "for nothing more than a 14-12 loss...
...Harvard football team asserts its last-ditch claim to the runner-up spot in the Ivy League this afternoon when Harvard and Yale meet for the 87th time at 1:30 p. m. in Harvard Stadium. Yale is favored by six points...
...Odyssey House branch on Manhattan's East 87th Street, one of the few public or private facilities for treating young addicts, is a grubby tenement from the outside. Inside, it is crowded but neatly kept; the kids have replastered falling ceilings, and they do all the work of cleaning, cooking and asking for food from neighborhood merchants. Though discipline is strict, they are cheerful and friendly. The members huddle in frequent bull sessions and gather regularly for group therapy with a trained psychologist. In those agonizing meetings?the one with Ralphie is typical?the kids are by turns affectionate...
...conduct a three-year study of accidents in Buffalo, N.Y. Said Dr. B. J. Campbell, head of the laboratory's accident research division: "We don't want to make a massive allocation of the country's resources to combat an accident cause that maybe ranks only 87th among causes." The study will be financed with $800,000 from the Automobile Manufacturers Association...