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Behind Russell's 58-ft., 8 3/4-in. toss, Harvard swept the 35-lb. weight throw event to start the meet. The Crimson never relinquished its lead...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Harriers Move Success Show Indoors | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...this year, Cleary's doorbell went "Ding,dong" and there stood Kevan Melrose, a 5-ft.,10-in., 205-lb. transfer from North Dakota.Melrose makes a Mack Truck look like a Tonka...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: When Badder is Better | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

Corporal Danny Fudge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stopped for coffee in a Yukon fishing village one day last summer and proceeded to make the catch of his life. In the Yukon Motel restaurant in Teslin (pop. 350), the ruddy, barrel-chested Mountie eyed a 300-lb. stranger sitting nearby. He thought he might have seen the man before -- on a wanted poster. The stranger, it turned out, was Charles McVey, a particularly notorious smuggler sought by U.S. Customs officials for illegally exporting millions of dollars' worth of computer equipment to Moscow. The sharp-eyed Corporal Fudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Technobandits | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

...through garbage cans around picnic grounds, sports arenas and office buildings. They turn in empties for a refund, usually a nickel a can, in the nine states that have bottle and can deposit laws. In other areas they can sell their refuse for 28 cents to 40 cents per lb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Give Me Your Wretched Refuse | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

There was some concern that the 5-ft., 10-in., 205-lb. forward would be forced to sit out this year after his transfer, but a check of NCAA rules showed that since he had been inactive all season, he could wear his Crimson sweater this fall...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Icemen Defy Preseason Expectations | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

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