Word: captains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shams Pahlavi, one of the Shah's three sisters, who owns the $600,000 home at 1163 Calle Vista. Both Princess Shams and the ailing matriarch of the house of Pahlavi, nonagenerian Queen Mother Tajomolouk, were within the 1.4-acre estate during the outburst. Said Beverly Hills Police Captain Lee Tracy: "It was like a combat zone." The cops arrested seven demonstrators, all Iranians, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service began investigating whether deportation proceedings could be started against them...
...backed by a consortium of bankers and aided by a team of divers, cartographers, numismatists and electronics technicians. His fishing boat was equipped with sophisticated tracking instruments in addition to $15,000 worth of maps made from aerial photographs. This was not, as Webber put it, a Captain Kidd operation. Said he: "It was purely academic, based on research and scientific technology." Webber did have to strike a sort of treasure hunter's bargain, however. In a contract with the Dominicans, he promised the government a fifty-fifty split of any treasure found...
...aide moves in to slap some goo on the woman's head-she shaves twice a day to avoid 5 o'clock shadow-while the men lean over the platform's railing to talk to onlookers below. "Does anyone have a prayer?" quips William Shatner, a.k.a. Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise. "We certainly have . . . the wing...
Hooft, the other co-captain and the team's leading scorer, was equally frustrated. "I've never seen a season like this," Hooft said. "This whole season has been bizarre. Weird things happen. It's something different every night...
Fine, the senior co-captain and recently-named Rhodes Scholar, was at a loss for words after the game. "We just weren't aggressive in the second half." Fine said. "We stopped doing our assignments. I don't know what...