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With hundreds of boats crowding the river, the regatta was not without its mishaps and close calls. There were many near collisions and locked oars as boats jockeyed for position. The worst accident occurred when the South Niagara Youth Eight team crashed into the Eliot Street bridge a half-mile from the end of the three-mile upstream course. Moments later the boat was cut in two by Andover's entry. The boats were unable to move and had to be towed to shore...

Author: By Sonya C. Laurence and Benjamin R. Reder, S | Title: Fans Party, Cheer Crews on Charles | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

Although she once dictated a niagara of dialogue into a tape recorder every week, Nixon today works only on the daily plots and long-term story projections for Loving and All My Children. She supervises like a master marionetteer, manipulating her characters from above, dictating their future actions as much as nine months in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Doyenne of Daytime | 8/15/1983 | See Source »

...capture was quick and dirty, so Jaffe claims. He was returning to his condominium from an afternoon jog when he was lured into a car, handcuffed and then taken south to the U.S. border at Niagara Falls. "This is a gotcha," Johnsen allegedly told Jaffe, who contends that the bounty hunters beat him. Local police, alerted by Jaffe's daughter, refused to intervene when he appealed to them at the Niagara Falls International Airport. Kear and Johnsen took him aboard a chartered jet waiting to fly to Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Putnam County vs. Canada | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...other carriers. Last year, for example, it hauled 875 carloads of water-purification chemicals that used to travel by truck from a Du Pont plant in Delaware. Conrail also snagged a fuel-hauling contract from Lake Ontario barge operators and moved 6,583 carloads of fuel oil for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conrail for Sale | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...Niagara...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/11/1983 | See Source »

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