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...known basketball fact that a team can play the toughest defense known to man, but if it doesn't score, it won't win. And after losing, 61-45. Last night at Briggs Cage to Dartmouth's Big Green Scoring Machine, the Harvard women's basketball team won't forger that fact...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Crimson Hoopsters Fall to Big Green Attack, To Face Penn Saturday in Second Ivy Game | 12/2/1982 | See Source »

...withdrew $500,000 in $100 bills from the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, and vanished from sight. He had parked the Jeep at the Des Moines municipal airport. On the front seat he left two books: the Bible and the autobiography of a reformed check forger entitled Catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Des Moines Stockbroker Lewellyn: Catch Me if You Can | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Henry was indicted for the 1972 robbery of a Norfolk, Va., bank and, pending trial, held in a cell block with a forger named Edward Nichols. A secret FBI informant, Nichols had been told to "be alert to" any statements Henry made about the robbery. The two became so friendly that Henry confided facts that helped convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Cheap Water for a Lush Valley | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...fairly cheap and easy process, costing about $1 for a record and somewhat less for an eight-track tape. Smith charges that organized crime figures steal so-called master stamps, which permit nearly perfect reproduction copies. Album covers are then duplicated with the skill of a forger making a $100 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Goody Behavior | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...Minsk generally carries 15 Forger Yak-36 VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) planes and 20 Kamov Ka-25 helicopters. The Forger rises and descends on a vertical column of air blown downward by two jet engines. Western analysts have not yet fully evaluated its functions, but it seems to carry antisubmarine weapons and both air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. The copters appear to be designed primarily to attack submarines, but also have equipment that can guide surface-to-surface missiles launched from the carrier itself. The vessel has four launchers that can fire missiles with a range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Now the Minsk | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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