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Completing the harvest is no easy task. Windfall loot has spawned violent crime. Crop thefts and armed robberies now loom as more ominous threats than police busts. "The paranoia gets so thick around here in October that you could cut it with a knife," says an Oregon grower...
...short as Copey himself, Frankfurter seemed to loom over us. He made us feel that a massive obscenity was being perpetrated, not only against the grandeur of the law, which was being fouled in Massachusetts in the name of justice. His voice was that of a Hebrew prophet. It was not lament. It was fueled by a determination to correct an evil. He was Isaiah rather than Jeremiah...
...long-time rivals go at it again in the Adams Cup race on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia tomorrow, in what should be a neck-and-neck encounter. An eight from Navy rounds out the field but doesn't loom as a threat to the oarsmen...
Princeton and Yale loom as the key opponents this year. The Elis shocked Columbia at home yesterday, 8-1, to tie Princeton, Harvard and Penn (all 1-0) in first place...
Huntsman and his crew are looking to the Eastern Sprints in Pittsfield May 14 as the key to a season that might culminate in another shot at the Nationals. The Terriers of B.U. loom once again as the team to beat...