Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...urgency felt by the Soviets: in 26 years in his job, Gromyko had given only a handful of news conferences in Moscow, and this was the first broadcast outside the U.S.S.R. The two-hour session was beamed live to the U.S. starting at 2 a.m. Saturday, Eastern time (see box). Gromyko's aim was obviously to keep European nuclear fears high by quashing any hope that Reagan's initiative could lead to a breakthrough in the Geneva INF talks...
...wife Laurie, an emaciated woman known as Walking Dead, is "cooking" a mixture of heroin and cocaine in a soda-bottle cap for her guests. She squirts in water, then heats the cap with a match. She reaches into an empty Quaker Oats box where she stores the "works"-hypodermic needle and syringe-and sucks up the liquid into the hypo. It costs $2 to shoot up, plus $3 for a new needle or $1 for a used...
Sighs a Bombay movie producer: "As a drama, Gandhi vs. Gandhi has all the makings of a box-office smash. I wish I could make...
...NOTEBOOK Allard batted three for five against B.C. "I like to beat those guys," the senior said of his father's alma mater... The strangest play of the game came in the bottom of the ninth. Eagle Mike Scott stepped into the batter's box 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and determined not to get his fourth. Scott blasted the ball back to the mound, where it hit the rubber and shot straight up. Musselman camped under the ball, fielded it and made the play at first. "That's what happens when you're winning," Nahigian said...
...advantage of the Wheaton pitchers lack of control, drawing six walks en route to an eight run second inning. Senior Pat Home and junior Landya Boyer drove in two runs apiece as the Crimson roared back from an early 3-0 deficit and knocked two pitchers our of the box...