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...first scene would show our heroes huddled around a telephone lap, listening to King's private conversations. The suspect is discussing an up coming trip to San Francisco where he will lobby for civil rights and fundraise for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The G Men jump into action, and soon technical experts from the San Francisco branch are wiring King's hotel room with taps and hidden television cameras...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Prime Time FBI | 2/27/1982 | See Source »

Stricker later completed a difficult double by winning the grueling 3000, despite hot pursuit by Yale's Margaret Wynne, who ran at the yardling's elbow for most of the 15-lap race. Her face flushed with exertion. Stricker proved her superior mettle by streaking through the last lap for another meet and Coxe Cage record of 9,39,43. Harvard freshman Kathy Goode coming off a lengthy stress fracture injury, took fourth...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Men Prevail; Women Fall In Tri-Meet | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Countryman repeated in the 200 butterfly, passing Cornell's Steve O'Day on the final lap to win the event...

Author: By Joseph Garcia, | Title: Mermen Sink Big Red, 77-35 | 2/20/1982 | See Source »

During the hour-long ride to Rockport. DiPietro sat with Hussain in the backseat of the car. She said that he kept a strong grip on her the entire time, while he testified that she sat quietly in his lap and at one time even kissed his neck...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: The Medical Profession on Trial | 2/11/1982 | See Source »

Then there are such historical detritus as F.D.R.'s lap robe; Nazi pilots' socks; a banner from a John L. Sullivan fight; Everett Dirksen's horn-rimmed glasses; a stuffed lion that was the flying partner-when it was alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaning the Nation's Attic | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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