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...image of the mystery man gained further dimension as neighbors of the Stammers from their days at Serra Negra began to speak up. Some remembered how he would climb to the top of an eight-foot observation tower on the farm and scan the horizon through binoculars. Basilio Silotto, a farm worker, reported that Pedro had told him once that Hitler was a great man. When a defective person was born, the old European confided to Silotto in tones reminiscent of the Auschwitz researcher, he would soon vanish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searches the Mengele Mystery | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...remaining five frosh, Beth Chandler, who sports a deadly eight-foot jumper, and Nancy Cibotti have made the biggest contributions...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Can Cagers Make It Four Straight? | 11/28/1984 | See Source »

...whatever you want and it's really nice," university employee Bill Brooks, an eight-foot boa constrictor wrapped around his body, said in a story that appeared in The Daily Texan...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, WITH COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS | Title: Spring Spurs Student Parties Across U.S. | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

Pinney moved to vaulting when he entered Frontenoc Secondary School in tenth grade, though his first vaulting experience came two years earlier when he cleared an eight-foot high clothesline using a pine tree as a pole...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: The Great White North | 12/10/1982 | See Source »

...game. Fat golfers occasionally suffer heart attacks or heat prostration out on the links, and some Florida players have been struck by lightning. During the spring trip. Baker had to hit a shot near a water hazard. As he swung at the ball, he noticed that an eight-foot alligator lay within spitting distance Obstacles like these are considered part of the game--golfers don't give up and go home just because a shot lies within the shadow of a toothy reptile...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Harvard Golf | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

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