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...pack of Dartmouth runners, including one-two finishers Hampton and McEvoy, grabbed the lead and ran a strong race over the crucial middle stages...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Harriers Fall to Big Green | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

...plays later, Cuccia almost connected with Scheper for a long gain over the middle, but Cadet strong safety Joe Hampton jolted the senior split end as he reached high for the ball, and again Villanueva had to punt it away...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Black Knights MX Gridders, 27-13 | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...judge who suddenly found himself short of jurors simply sent sheriffs deputies out to round up some citizens. Among the 20 or so corralled were a woman heading home with a bag of groceries and an angry trucker with a load of wet cement. In South Carolina's Hampton County, everything depends on an antique system in which a child under ten or a blind person sits in court and pulls the names of potential jurors from a metal box. Says Marjorie Avant, a courthouse employee: "No one ever suggested doing it any other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, the Jury, Find the . . . | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head. Not that the brain actually leaves the head during the summer months; rather, something happens to it, or on it, like a moon caught in an eccentric orbit between the sun and, say, East Hampton or Bodega Bay. Astronomers know this event either as the "mental equinox" or "cranial eclipse." It is not serious, causes no permanent damage; the apparatus is simply altered while the body is on vacation. After Labor Day, when the body stands vertical again, the brain pops back into shape like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Summer's End: Goodbye, Local Peaches | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Sulka robe and a pair of $300 silk Gucci pajamas. Caine, 47, plays Sidney Bruhl, a writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript by doing in its author. During the filming of one scene, Cannon leaned toward Caine and whispered that he reminded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 17, 1981 | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

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