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Madness descended. Motorcycle cops jumped curbs, machines roaring over the grass in a ballet of aimless panic. The crowd on the grassy knoll looked like it had been swept with a giant scythe. The street was empty, a stark, lifeless slab of concrete that smelled of disaster. Kennedy's motorcade had been chopped in two like a luckless centipede, the front end blown to God knew where, the rear end writhing and thrashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Scheim's account on this point is impressive. He cites the statements of people viewing Kennedy's motorcade in front of the fence, who felt the bullets just above their heads and even dropped to the ground to evade the shots. Moreover it was to the grassy knoll in front of the fence that police first gravitated in their search for Kennedy's assassin. If there were at least two gunmen, then it seems hard to deny that it was a group of conspirators who killed the president...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Who Shot JFK? | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Freshman Ryan Knoll said the only effect the new drinking age has had on student life is that the university can no longer legally provide alcohol at school events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...People used to stay on campus to drink," said Knoll. "Now, they go downtown. The bars there serve anyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 10/24/1987 | See Source »

...possibly have thought the old place was really in good shape, or that the pricey food was anything more than dependably dreary. But nostalgia is a heady seasoning, and panic set in among habitues as soon as the word was out that the new owner, Marshall S. Cogan's Knoll International Holdings Inc., had turned the management over to Ken Aretsky and Anne Rosenzweig, the team behind Arcadia, a popular East Side boutique-restaurant celebrated for its new American cooking. Even more frightening to those accustomed to "21's" innocuous but soothing nursery dishes was the news that Rosenzweig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: 21 And Still Counting | 6/1/1987 | See Source »

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