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...freshmen, Maria Pe and Erica Schulman, symbolizing the new breed in women's tennis, assumed the top positions and won handily in routine matches. In other play, newcomer Kristen Mertz had an easy win at number five against Rebecca Larson, 6-0, 6-4, while Betty Quigley won BC's only singles match over Liz Siegel in three sets...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: Women's Tennis Fells BC, 7-2, Ends Season With 4-2 Record | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

...part of NASA'S so-called getaway specials, compact canisters as small as 1.5 cu. ft. that can be placed on a flight for as little as $3,000. One young man recently announced he intended to use such an experimental package to see if fruit flies breed in space. What will be next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Touchdown, Columbia! | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...CLEAR exactly what Lanford Wilson was trying to do with The Rimers of Eldritch. Rimers came out of the late 1960's a curious kind of half-breed. It broke from the traditional comedy or love-story categories into which most of Wilson's later work falls fairly neatly. It's not a murder mystery or a western, as the sensational excerpt on the publicity posters around campus might suggest. Instead, it's an early and uncertain try at experimental theater, one that ends up as a modern mood piece, a stained glass of many parts through which a light...

Author: By John KENT Walker, | Title: Rimers, But Few Reasons | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

Americans themselves are profoundly discouraged by the handguns that seem to breed uncontrollably among them like roaches. For years the majority of them have favored restrictions on handguns. In 1938 a Gallup poll discovered that 84% wanted gun controls. The latest Gallup finds that 62% want stricter laws governing handgun sales. Yet Americans go on buying handguns at the rate of one every 13 seconds. The murder rate keeps rising. It is both a cause and an effect of gun sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: It's Time to Ban Handguns | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...galloping cost of oil has spawned a new breed of rustlers on the American prairies. Instead of roping longhorns, they steal crude oil-right from the production fields. Driving tanker trucks capable of carrying up to 200 bbl. of crude, these so-called hot oilers simply pull up to remote storage facilities, drain the contents into their vehicles, then skedaddle with their liquid loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Oil Heists | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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