Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eagles' sophomore pitching star, John Cooper, didn't keep Harvard off the basepaths, but somehow prevented the team from scoring a run. The Crimson left 12--count 'em, 12--men on base, and frustrated freshman pitcher Bill Larson's (2-2) bid to become the squad's first three-game winner. Harvard falls to 6-4 overall, though the more important Eastern League mark remains...
...press by saying something new all the time. Keep saying what works. Tom Dewey told me you have to tell people something at least four times before they remember it. We all have 'the' speech. Lincoln made the House Divided speech at least 100 times before Cooper Union...
DIED. Wilhelmina Behmenburg Cooper, 40, Dutch-born daughter of a Chicago butcher, who parlayed a career as one of the nation's most photographed beauties into a second triumph as head of one of the top New York model agencies; of cancer; in Greenwich, Conn. During her cover-girl days, Wilhelmina boasted that she was "one of the few high-fashion models built like a woman." So she was. With her 5 ft. 11 in., 38-24-36 frame, doe eyes, delicate cheekbones and mane of high-piled dark hair, she epitomized the classical, aristocratic look that she helped...
That question has also been asked by FBI agents, ever since D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971, extorted $200,000 and four parachutes from Northwest Airlines, and bailed out at 7,000 ft. over rolling wooded hills near La Center in the state of Washington. No trace was ever found of the ransom or Cooper, who soon became a local folk hero...
Then last week eight-year-old Brian Ingram dug a dozen packets of weathered $20 bills from a bank of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Wash. The FBI determined from the serial numbers that the $4,000 was part of Cooper's loot. Using picks and shovels, agents unearthed fragments of several more bills, some buried 3 ft. deep. FBI officials speculate that the money and Cooper landed somewhere upstream and that floods washed the bills to their final resting place. Said FBI Agent Ralph Himmelsbach, who has been investigating the hijacking for more than eight years: "The money...