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...orange combined a gang of talented backs and a swarming defense to annihilate a defenseless Lowell House contingent, 28-0, yesterday in House Football action...
...lower reaches of the Top 200 album charts but import sales of its debut LP and singles were so strong that the British punk quartet was able to sell out a 12-date tour of 2-3,000 seat halls in February, 1979. English new wave bands 999, Magazine, Gang of Four, Penetration, Ultravox and Sham 69 toured America without the benefit of a Stateside recording contract--acts of unprecedented chutzpah and optimism--and found enthusiastic crowds already familiar with the music packing their club dates. The Gang of Four and 999 subsequently landed domestic label deals...
...Those who want to limit the possible effects on the reputations of Mao and Hua are said to have won out. Nonetheless, as one skeptical Chinese intellectual put it last week, "No matter how secret they keep the trial, everybody knows that without Mao there would have been no Gang of Four...
...held at all is an important milestone for Chinese leaders eager to distance themselves from the country's unpleasant recent past. It also indicates that despite some continuing disputes among top leaders, Peking has become sufficiently stable to allow such a delicate matter as the sins of the Gang of Four to be aired. Certainly, the trial will generate considerable excitement among the millions of Chinese for whom the Cultural Revolution remains a vivid memory...
DIED. Thomas F. ("Sandy") Richardson, 73, a member of the famed Brink's gang that made off with $2.8 million in Boston 30 years ago, including enough in currency ($1.2 million) to make it the largest cash holdup in U.S. history at the time; of cancer; in South Weymouth, Mass. Richardson, a sometime longshoreman, was one of eleven men charged with the crime in 1956, only five days before the state statute of limitations would have...