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...nearing the end of his final quarter, and no longer juggling academics with a heavy practice schedule, Kiki was ready to breeze through exams when he got the news that Dallas had traded him to Denver for future draft choices. Hours later he was on a plane to the mile-high city, and that night he played his first game in the pros against the Dallas Mavericks...
Alexander described the course as fairly long, with certain holes made "very demanding" by the 40 mile-an-hour winds. "They were the strongest I've ever played in," he reported...
...NOTE BOOK: Two weeks ago the team ran in a meet in Georgia to warm up for the upcoming season. True to form the two-mile relay squad of Rogers, Clabby, Herlihy and Linsley captured top honors by turning in a 9:18 clocking. But the highlight of the meet went instead to the coaching staff. Assistant coach John Babington donned his running shoes and took to the track, running a very respectable 4:50 mile as legions of women runners cheered wildly. This week members of the team will be hosting visitors from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge...
...black soldiers who followed their young colonel fought fiercely, hand to hand, but they were hopelessly outnumbered, driven back, slaughtered. Next morning, the dead and wounded were strewn over three-quarters of a mile. The Confederates stripped Shaw's body and threw it into a mass grave. When the Union forces finally captured Fort Wagner, the Army wanted to retrieve Shaw's body, but his family objected. They wanted him to remain with...
Although potential drilling sites have been leased in picturesque farm country and near the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail, a favorite haunt of backpackers, there have been few of the protests that normally accompany energy exploration. Most of the leases involve private landowners and farmers, and do not include government lands over which environmental groups can assert a public interest...