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Ernst yesterday credited both of his 2-yd. touchdown plunges to the diligent execution of the Harvard offensive line. "With the line making the holes, when it came down to the goal line, it was just bread and butter," he said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Gridders Win | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Following the takeover of the embassy on Nov. 4, Queen was confined in a basement room he called the "Mushroom Inn." Several tunes a week he was taken outside for exercise. On one occasion, the customary blanket was put over his head, and he was led out of his room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Glimpse into the Embassy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

Like the mock execution, the talk of a release that never occurred might have been a tactic to demoralize the prisoners. But Queen believes that there really was an effort to free them that the students or their allies thwarted. Queen overheard some captors "really cursing the government, particularly the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Glimpse into the Embassy | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

The attack on Bakhtiar took place Friday morning. According to French police, three armed terrorists posing as journalists tried to break into his apartment in the fashionable Paris suburb of Neuilly. They opened fire on two French police guards, killing one and wounding the other, but were unable to smash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: STALKING THE CONSPIRATORS | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

It was an executive-suite execution acted out like a daytime soap opera. Scanning the newspaper last Tuesday morning, NBC Chairman Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, probably the nation's highest-paid woman executive, saw a story that she had been asked to resign. Pfeiffer, 47, then wrote out an indignant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hell No, I Won't Go! | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

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