Word: hammerism
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...rampage, a 6-ft. 9-in., 278-lb. giant named Edmund Emil Kemper III was having one of his frequent fights with his mother, an administrative assistant at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He ended it by hitting her on the head with a hammer and cutting off her head and right hand. He strangled her friend, another college employee, and stuffed the bodies into separate bedroom closets in his mother's Santa Cruz home. Then Kemper, 24, climbed into his car and drove east until he reached Pueblo, Colo., where he placed a call...
...millionaire novelist, composed a self-interview in which he saw himself both as Henry James and Henny Youngman. James, the 19th century novelist with a mind like a surgical-steel tweezers, revealed the delicate attachments between social conventions and motivation. Youngman, a basic Jewish stand-up comic, is a hammer-and-tongs man who reduces his subjects to recognizable pulp...
...Embree continued his domination of the high jump, winning even though he had a slightly sub-par, 6 ft. 6 in., performance. Jay Hughes took the hammer throw with a toss of nearly 175 feet...
Harvard should be a shoo-in for wins in hammer (Hughes), the long and triple jumps (Vincent Vanderpoole-Wallace), and pole-vault (Jim Kleiger and Blayne Heckel...
...field events, freshman star Mel Embree will high jump, Jay Hughes will throw the 16-pound hammer and Dick Gilbane is the lone Harvard discus thrower. Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace will compete in the long jump and triple jump. Ahmed Kayali will join Vanderpool-Wallace in the triple jump. Jim Kleiger and Blayne Heckel will be the team's pole vaulters...