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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particular skip tracer of this film is one John Collins, Vancouver's finest, Man of the Year for his firm three years running, and probably the coldest, most calculating lead character of the year. With his stylish suits and grown-out crew cut, he is the epitome of the emotionless bureaucrat, a surly, cocky SOB whose meanness is matched only by his ruthless efficiency (pardon me, I'm raving). He'll follow you around town, visit you at work, call you on the phone. Not that he doesn't have his own standards--pay up and it's all buddy...

Author: By Tom Hines, | Title: No Credit | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

Captain Caryn Curry's 25-point barrage led the Harvard women's basketball team to their finest performance of their 8-4 season, as the squad swept past Dartmouth, 80-65, last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Cagers Drub Dartmouth, 80-65 | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

Dartmouth could not stop Curry, as she continued to hit from everywhere on the court. Curry played her finest game this season, demonstrating that she has returned to her old form after a slow start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Cagers Drub Dartmouth, 80-65 | 2/1/1979 | See Source »

...finest contests of the winter season--in any sport--the men locked horns with a spunky Hanover squad and knotted the score at 13-all with one bout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Head Up Foursome Of Squads Still Undefeated | 1/31/1979 | See Source »

...wives. It also turns out that Foster's murder-as puzzled out by a hero who blends the best characteristics of hard-drugging Rolling Stone Writer Hunter Thompson and a freelancer named Rosenbaum-has much to do with Watergate. Many journalists consider that scandal their calling's finest hour. Foster, writes Rosenbaum, "caught the crest of the wave of media fever that engulfed mid-Seventies America. Woodward and Bernstein brought down a President; Redford and Hoffman enshrined the heroic reporters as symbolic successors. The entire journalism profession swelled with newly inflated prestige, power and self-esteem." In Rosenbaum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roman | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

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