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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, the circus of sleaze didn't unfurl its tend until Meg made her fatal mistake--she died. When her children, Bessie and John, found out that they didn't even get the placque that used to hang over the kitchen sink with the Lord's Prayer on it, all hell broke loose. Special crack teams of Rockefeller lawyers, trained in jungle survival techniques by G. Gordon Liddy and in rhetoric by Jesse Jackson, sprang out of camouflaged foxholes to launch a frontal attack on the U.S. judiciary system. The objective: $50 million in diamonds, stock, and Third World countries...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Dollar Diplomacy | 3/21/1987 | See Source »

...Hang themselves...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: How Do I Hate Thee? | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

...order to establish some of the character that Higginson wanted preserved, he wrote to Teddy Roosevelt (class of 1880) asking for a contribution. Roosevelt responded with two elk antler chandeliers, that still hang today, and more than 30 animal heads. Roosevelt wrote, "I hope that this small token will inspire the lads to the life of adventure to which I have become so attached...

Author: By Michael E. Raynor, | Title: Freshman Dining Hall No Longer Serves up Wildebeast | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...Crimson was able to hang tough throughout the contest with the Terrapins, despite the fact that the Terps are the defending NCAA champions. The score was knotted at four goals apiece at halftime, and a Crimson tally early in the third period gave it a brief 5-4 lead...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Laxwomen Go South | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...vessel rolled over, hundreds of passengers were hurled about interior waiting rooms, restaurants, bars and duty-free shops. "We were trying to find things to hang on to," said Maureen Bennett of Sussex. "It was so frightening." Said Clifford Byrnes of Coventry: "It all happened in a minute. Glasses started sliding on the tops of tables and then smashing. People began falling down. You could see the water through the portholes. Then the lights went out. Everyone started shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tragic End for Day Trippers | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

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