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Until a few weeks ago, before the winds of progress struck, the Boot Key Marina was the kind of place where everybody got together and cooked a collective Thanksgiving dinner. They had parties all the time. Ellie Sharp, who spent the past six years at the marina with her husband Pat aboard their 39-ft. sailboat, the Tranquillity II, liked to collect everyone's aluminum cans, sell them and use the money for the regular Saturday hamburger cookouts. In the winter, when the weather was right, 25 or 30 people would wander down to the end of the dock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: End of an Era | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...arrange that Harvard tells you to go home on steak night? The Food services administrators really think that without a "no-interhouse" rule, we would all go to each of Harvard's 13 dining halls and collect T-bones...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Of Waffles and T-Bones | 4/29/1985 | See Source »

Finally, he turned to collect his stats books, and the team turned to walk back across the river. Then, he yelled over to the group of them, "Nice job, girls...

Author: By John Zilcoksy, | Title: Netwomen Pick and Peel Orangewomen, Secure Grasp on East's Number One Spot | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

Assistant Director of Athletics Scott H. Anderson said that normal policy is to collect visiting teams' valuables for protection. However, Penn declined, according to Anderson...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: Purses, Lockers Targets of Theft | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

...Belize, the former British colony on Mexico's southern border. Briceno was charged with conspiring to smuggle more than 1,000 pounds of "controlled substances," including marijuana, into the U.S. Drug agency officials said that Briceno was a major marijuana supplier in his country and was visiting Miami to collect a down payment on a consignment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs the Big Catch | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

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