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...Reycroft. But Reycroft always seems to get more than expected out of his teams, and Cornell (21-7-4, 13-6-2 ECAC) enjoys the greatest home advantage in the league--for opposing teams, playing in front of the Lynah Hall crowd is like stepping into a Roman Coliseum...

Author: By Neil Mooney, | Title: Viewing the ECAC | 11/14/1986 | See Source »

Pepperdine and US National Team Coach Schroeder is best remembered for having posed naked for the male statue which stood outside the entrance to Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum during the 1984 Summer Olympics...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Homecoming | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...another example, in the Great Peace March, a walk for nuclear disarmament from Los Angeles to Washington, kicked off by a star-studded concert in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Endorsements by Madonna and Rosanna Arquette (Desperately Seeking Negotiation?) proved not quite enough, however. Celebritics requires sustained star power. In part because of celebrity no- shows, the Great Peace March took a wobble last month at Mile 120, in the Mojave Desert. Its chief sponsor collapsed in bankruptcy. But several hundred survivors declared themselves ready to carry on as soon as they could get essential supplies, including, says Spokeswoman Lisa Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Celebrities in Politics: a Cure | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...Long Island Lighting shares selling for more than ten times that price. A keyboard operator processing orders at an Oakland department store changes some delivery addresses and diverts several thousand dollars' worth of store goods into the hands of accomplices. A ticket clerk at the Arizona Veterans' Memorial Coliseum issues full-price basketball tickets, sells them and then, tapping out codes on her computer keyboard, records the transactions as half-price sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Surveying the Data Diddlers | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Tuesday afternoon was sunny, but motorists switched on their car headlights as a tribute. In Los Angeles, the Olympic torch atop the Memorial Coliseum was lighted anew in honor of the space victims. Governor James Thompson of Illinois, before leaving on a trip to Japan, had asked citizens of his state to turn on their porch lights at night during Challenger's mission to express support for the teacher-in-space project. After the tragedy, he telephoned a request that they keep them on Wednesday night as memorials to the fallen heroes. Many other communities paid comparable tributes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: They Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth to Touch the Face of God | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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