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...sitting outside on a chair the size of a Mazda. How about a wax representation of a man with three eyes? Don't knock it til you've seen it, or the shrunken heads, either. While you're in the area, check out Fort Castillo a quizzical structure with eight-foot thick walls made out of coquina shells...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Living It Up in the Florida Sunshine | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

...Carrabino drove across the lane and fired home a sweet eight-foot, left-handed hook, putting the Crimson back up, 63-62. Navy...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Navy Nips Cagers; Record Falls to 2-2 | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Struggling with high raw material prices and energy costs was also difficult. The price of many building materials has soared in the past two years. A standard eight-foot two-by-four, for example, has jumped in price from 97? in 1978 to $1.92 last year, while the rental fees on dumpsters, which are large trash bins used at construction sites, almost trebled to $72 a month during the same period. But the two entrepreneurs found ways to cut costs. One gambit was to drive their 1958 International truck across the Mexican border to buy gasoline in Tijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Engines of Growth | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...dense forest beyond the barbed wire fence as raindrops splattered about them. Puddles. Lots of them. Cops and reporters, too. Not on mention an 80-per-cent complete atomic power plant. But where were the anti-nuclear protesters, the non-violent commandos who were planning to scale those eight-foot tall barriers and stage a mass-occupation...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Welcome to Shoreham | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...paintings stolen by the alleged thieves, who apparently climbed an eight-foot fence behind Bok's house and forced open a rear window, was a 20th century French work owned by Bok, reportedly worth...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl and James L. Tyson, S | Title: FBI Recovers Bok's Stolen Paintings; Three Indicted in Last Year's Theft | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

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