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Mighty Dan Marino and his number-two ranked Pittsburgh Panthers football team came to Chestnut Hill to play Boston College Saturday. In a game that both sides tried their best to lose, Pitt came away with a 29-24 win and--thanks to a loss by number-one Penn State--a shot at the top spot in this week's polls. But many of those in the crowd were left wondering if the real Panthers hadn't stayed in Pittsburgh and sent a team of imposters for this Halloween showdown...
Lawrence R. Marino, Detective
What to wear to the investiture? Maria Lea Pedini, 26, first woman Captain-Regent of tiny San Marino (a country 24 miles square perched on a mountainside in Italy), shunned the flat hat and knickers demanded by tradition last week. The pretty wife and mother chose a skirt and more feminine chapeau from a Milan designer. La Capitana wants reform in the world's oldest republic, where women were barred from voting until 1960, and where even today women lose citizenship if they marry foreigners. One obstacle to change: her term lasts only six months...
DIED. Ray Allen Billington, 77, historian who chronicled the westward movement of the American frontier in such scholarly but vivid books as Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (1949) and this year's Land of Savagery, Land of Promise; of a heart attack; in San Marino, Calif. Billington taught from 1944 to 1963 at Northwestern University, where he showed generations of undergraduates the way West in a course known as Cowboys and Indians...
...absence of so many world-class athletes made for a pleasing unpredictability in Moscow. A judo competitor from the tiny Republic of San Marino (pop. 20,000) admitted: "It isn't the same without the Japanese. Even I have a chance here now." At the same time, the Games produced three dozen world records, the same number as in 1976, and some moments of high drama...