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...They're fast, they're young, and they're hungry" boasted spectator Chuck Marshall '81, adding, "Those first four losses have to be put down to inexperience. This is one of the fastest rising teams around...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Women Cagers Victorious; Holy Cross First Victim | 12/12/1980 | See Source »

Well, this movie is funnier than anything Allen has done since Sleeper. It is also his "fastest," with the wild inventions flashing by almost before they can be picked up. Allen by this time is capable of achieving almost any effect he wants, and he has turned churches into hotels and greenhouses into train stations to get exactly the look he wants. But the whole business is expended upon what may be Allen's ultimate exercise in self-flagellation: why is it necessary to portray the entire viewing public as a bunch of doltish boors? And why should Bates worry...

Author: By Sol LOUIS Siegel, | Title: Stardust Memories | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...takes 10 years (1980-90) to rebuild New York City's subway into the safest, fastest, cleanest and most modern in the world. Labor, management, skills, materials, necessity, money from Washington's printing presses are right now available. This giant project triggers rebuilding urban America. Vastly increases employment as well as revenues for government and private industry. The MX missile for 1980-90 at 50 to 100 billion dollars destroys Nevada-Utah and threatens human survival. Rebuilding NYC subway blesses humankind. Henry Ratliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...known around the world for its high quality: sinsemilla (a Spanish-derived word meaning without seed), an unusually potent hybrid marijuana. Ever since Mexico began widespread spraying of its pot fields with the herbicide paraquat, cutting shipments to the U.S., sinsemilla has become one of California's fastest growing-and most profitable-crops. California's pot patches range from small gardens with a few plants to 2½-acre fields that may yield up to 4,000 sinsemilla plants, some with 4-in. trunks that stand 20 ft. tall. With 1 oz. of sinsemilla retailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Pot Shots in California | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...long history of harness racing, there has never been a horse quite like the big bay colt called Niatross. Winner of 30 races in 32 trips to the post, he is the Secretariat of his sport. The fastest pacer ever to pull a sulky, Niatross holds world records for both the racing mile and a mile in a time trial. Last weekend, he won the Messenger Stakes at New York's Roosevelt Raceway by two lengths on a rain-soaked track to capture the Triple Crown for pacers.* Niatross thus became only the sixth pacer in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Supercolt Outruns Controversy | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

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