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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the N.Y.P.D. doesn't have the budget to send detectives around the country on a chase, Majeski had to track Abbott by telephone. He set up a command post in the basement of his Staten Island home. Using a nationwide network of law-enforcement contacts, he plotted Abbott's moves on a map of the U.S. Majeski's reading runs from works on psychology to Sherlock Holmes, and it served him well in his remote-control manhunt. So did In the Belly of the Beast. "All the clues to what he is, how he thinks, what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Tracking a Murder Suspect | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

October 22, 10:30 a.m.--Responding to a fire alarm, the security guard at Baker Library found that a piece of wood resting on a transformer in the basement had started a small fire. The guard extinguished the fire, and Cambridge Fire Department officials cut off the power to the transformer...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Police Blotter | 10/24/1981 | See Source »

Construction on the 83-year-old gym, located in Radcliffe Yard, began last February, when locker and shower areas on the first floor were converted to office space and athletic equipment was cleared from the second floor to make room for a new dance studio. Workers filled in a basement-level pool and converted it to a temperature-controlled vault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Radcliffe Gym Renovated; Agassiz Slated to Open Nov. 9 | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

Divorced nine years ago and still single, Kamali rarely goes to parties or socializes, and spends most of her time in the basement workroom of her midtown Manhattan store. She lives next door to her shop with a miniature dachshund, Ernie, in a small, one-bedroom converted marble showroom. Though the name of her shop-OMO, for On My Own-has a militant ring, Kamali is not an ardent feminist. (The first business she shared with her husband was called Kamali, and to break clean with the past she settled on the name OMO for her sleek, new, triple-level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Hot-Selling Locker Room Look | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...September 23, 4:23 p.m.-A student told police his gold, colonial-style couch was missing from the basement of Claverly Hall. The couch was valued...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Blotter | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

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