Word: cal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson will face highly-ranked teams during its spring break trip, where it will compete in the prestigious Cal-Irvine Tournament. U.C.-Irvine (ranked fourth in the nation) and many of the nation's top teams will compete in the tournament...
...Cincinnati on Friday in the Southeast Regional, first round action will conclude with Villanova (21-12) against Arkansas (21-8); Illinois (22-9) against Texas-San Antonio (22-8); Maryland (17-12) against Cal-Santa Barbara (22-7) and Kentucky (25-5) against Southern-Baton Rouge...
...total of about 4,000 images were shot in Jerusalem and carted back to Southern Cal for study. Only a few dozen have been developed so far, but they have already shed new light on the customs of the ancient Jews and the cultural backdrop against which Christianity developed. Most startling are new passages that record in great detail the physical beauty of Abraham's wife Sarah. These include descriptions of the contours of Sarah's breasts, which Charlesworth interprets as proof that Judaic culture was not as puritanical or repressed as many scholars have suggested...
Across town, ten days later, Alma Lee Washington was sitting in her wheelchair in the doorway of her rundown two-bedroom house in South Central Los Angeles when hoodlums driving by opened fire with a .45-cal. handgun. Washington, 67, was killed by a bullet that struck her in the right eye. Yet her slaying got scant attention. Footage of the grieving family was not the top story on the evening news. The Los Angeles Herald Examiner buried her death in a small note. The Los Angeles Times, which had been splashing the Westwood shoot-out across...
...lurks: the Mafia commission put out a $500,000 contract on Pistone's life, forcing him and his long-suffering family to live under an assumed name somewhere in New Jersey. Pistone, who left the FBI in 1986, is no longer protected by the agency but carries a .38-cal. pistol at all times. The Mob has reason to rage at the former agent: his daring double life was instrumental in gaining more than 100 federal convictions of organized-crime members. He was a key witness in the "pizza connection" case involving Sicilian heroin importers, as well...