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Junior Spencer Punter led the Crimson with a victory in the mile and a second place-finish in the 800. Punter capped off his afternoon by running the opening leg on the two mile relay team that put Northeastern away for good...
...gambling, just as it does with alcohol. In fact, gaming has been readily available to Mississippians for years. Boats offering "dinner cruises" regularly leave Gulfport and Biloxi bound for international waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The slots and dice usually roll long before the boats reach the 12-mile limit...
...trainee engineer making his first passenger run was at the controls of the Amtrak Night Owl as it approached Boston's Back Bay Station at the morning rush hour. Tripping signals about a mile from a curve, the train, carrying roughly 200 people, was moving at 91.8 m.p.h. When the overnighter from Washington reached the curve, it should have slowed down to 30 m.p.h. The trainee, Richard Abramson, 41, told investigators that he hit the brakes three times before the curve, but they failed to slow the 120-ton locomotive. Willis Copeland, a veteran engineer supervising Abramson, tried the emergency...
When rescuers finally fought their way through the fog and the wreckage, they found 83 damaged cars and trucks strung along a half-mile stretch of the Interstate. Thirteen people were killed and 50 hurt in the ill-fated roadway's third -- and worst -- major pileup since 1978. Frightened local motorists and truckers could only wonder: How many next time...
...pass through the White House this month. And the halls are well decked to receive them, with 47 Christmas trees, 54,000 lights and 50 wreaths. Pastry impresario Hans Raffert will produce 120,000 cakes and cookies; gardener Irv Williams has festooned the North Portico with a quarter-mile of Lycopodium garland and gathered more than 300 poinsettias for inside. Forty-four groups of bell ringers, carolers and other musicians are heading for Washington...