Word: philadelphia
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After defeating BC, 8-5, in a midweek match-up, the Crimson toppled Penn, 14-12, in Philadelphia on Saturday--the squad's second Ivy upset of the week...
Contac capsules have helped millions of Americans endure the sniffles, but last week every store in the U.S. that carried the popular cold remedy was ordered to get it off the shelves. Manufacturer SmithKline Beckman of Philadelphia was forced to recall Contac and two other fast-selling encapsulated products, the antihistamine Teldrin, for allergies, and Dietac, for appetite control...
Mayor Wilson Goode's handpicked commission was stunningly impartial. "The plan to bomb the Move house was reckless, ill conceived and hastily approved," the panel concluded last week in its report on the May 1985 siege of a radical group in West Philadelphia. The mayor and his top aides were "grossly negligent" in pursuing the confrontation, the report stated. The bomb, dropped by police helicopter on a fortified row house, led to a fire that destroyed 61 homes and killed six Move members and five of their children. The children's deaths, the panel said, "appear to be unjustified homicides...
November, 1985. Philadelphia Flyers goalie Pelle Lindbergh is killed in an automobile accident. He was drunk the night of his death...
February 14: In their worst loss since B.C., the hoopsters are derailed by Princeton, 84-72, in New Jersey while Dartmouth is romping over Penn in Philadelphia. The Crimson makes less than a third of its field goal attempts and records only one assist in the 22-point trouncing...