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...those stalwart Army football teams, the Black Knights of the Hudson, that Owner Al Davis so admired as a child growing up in Brooklyn. But the Raiders' silver-and-black has come to be associated with villainy, a source of pride to the wearers, who look affectionately upon mayhem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Tangy Super Bowl for Tampa | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...Reagan Administration disagrees. It apparently prefers to see schools as centers of mayhem and gangsterism, the way they have been depicted on film in The Blackboard Jungle (1955) and in a more recent movie called Class of!984. On Jan. 7 the President told a national radio audience that "we can't get learning back into our schools until we get the crime and violence out." He is expected to return to the subject when he gives his State of the Union message next week Meanwhile, the Administration has released a report, "Disorder in our Public Schools," designed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Preparing to Wield the Rod | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...surprised that the mayor of Tripoli did not have Arafat arrested for vagrancy, trespassing, vandalism, inciting a riot, committing mayhem and destroying public property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 19, 1983 | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...frat has attempted aborted mayhem in the past, as in 1948, when dynamite detonator was found sunk into the field spelling out "MIT" "They got really uptight about that," says Cook...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Games people play | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...wood paneled and decorated with antique weapons, a fair number of which get used in the two and a half hours of mayhem. As Bruhl asks early on. "What's the point of owning a mace if you don't use it?" The mace and most of the swords, axes, knives and guns would make any collector proud, but one large cardboard-looking saber in the middle of the back wall stands...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Mind Games | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

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