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First, kicker Rob Steinberg--who had a marvelous day booting the ball, alternating booming punts with coffin corner placements--split the uprights with a 35-yards field goal midway through the second period...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: Defense Overwhelms Quakers, 17-6 | 11/18/1985 | See Source »

...Connecticut native's second touchdown which sealed Yale's coffin. Penn quarterback Jim Crocicchia, facing a second-and-10 from the Yale 39 midway through the second quarter, hit Comizio with a little dump pass in the left flat...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Unbeaten Penn Flies High at Yale, 23-7; Quakers Take Control of Ivy Title Race | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...activists, morality can override politics. Gary Cook, associate pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church in Massillon, Ohio, says, "We're a very conservative group of folks politically. But once we encountered the refugees face to face, we couldn't justify not taking them in." Notes the Rev. William Sloane Coffin of Riverside Church in New York City: "We don't apologize for the political aspect. God is concerned not just with your sins and my sins, but with the sins of the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bringing Sanctuary to Trial | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...waited outside the prison gates accompanied by, among others, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela. "I said, 'It's the last time. That's my son.' This government is cruel. It is really, really cruel." Mrs. Moloise was later permitted to see her son's unopened coffin, but his body will remain the property of the state and will be buried inside the prison in a grave marked by a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa I Am Proud to Give My Life | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

...killed in a parachute jump. Beyond that, there were suggestions of a disturbing recklessness. The plane's owner, David Lee Williams of Atlanta, disregarded a mechanic's warning that the fuel was contaminated. He flew the craft to the West Wind Sport Parachute Center, where it turned into a coffin for himself and the chutists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: The Skydivers' Last Plunge | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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