Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elgin, Ill., police returned to the parking lot of a Howard Johnson's restaurant and motel where two officers had discovered discarded bottles of Extra-Strength Tylenol a day before the poisonings. The policemen in the Interval had become mildly ill with symptoms that were similar to those of cyanide poisoning. Elgin officers found that the bottles had been broken by the wheels of cars, and powder was scattered on the ground...
...should be said also of Erving, at 32 the other sublime forward in the game. Dr. J concurs with Bird that the pass means more than the shot and only gives the impression that the "move" means most of all. Bird recalls Robertson's impeccability; Erving reprises Elgin Baylor's flamboyance. But the subtler moves of Dr. J are the ones the players note and appreciate...
Shales first lost his socks watching '50s favorites such as I Love Lucy, The Honeymooners, Playhouse 90 and Kukla, Fran and Ollie in front of a 14-in. RCA in Elgin, Ill. (pop. then: 45,000). After graduating from American University in Washington, D.C., with a degree in journalism, he freelanced for several small publications. On his second try, he landed a general assignment slot at the Post. Shales now lives alone in a suburban ranch-style house in Virginia. He is a mildly neurotic M & M addict who, when he is not worrying about his weight...
...assistant professor of German at the University of Virginia; Elizabeth Block '65, assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania: John B. Childs, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies at Yale University; William Eamon, assistant professor of History of Science at New Mexico State University; Catherine Z. Elgin, unaffiliated, who will study Philosophy; Michael T. Ferejohn, assistant professor of English at Washington State University; Thomas L. Jeffers, assistant professor of English at Cornell University; Edward Kadletz, assistant professor of Classics at Ball State University (Ind.); Kent Kraft, assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia; Elaine...
...backyard conservationists often produce remarkable results in a tiny space. In Elgin, Ill., Derr and Peggi Andrlik's 140-ft. by 140-ft. lot is shared by 100 ducks, red foxes, squirrels, wood-chucks and a doe, as well as Pedro and Caspar, two pyrrhuloxias that have taken up residence 1,500 miles from their natural home in Mexico. A habitat in Thomasville, Ga., owned by the Robert Boissieres, abounds with shrubs, trees, vines, wild flowers and grasses; it has become a refuge for a wide variety of birds, including an occasional giant pileated woodpecker. Now that...