Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that close call didn't come from its opponent Saturday--the Crimson had little trouble disposing of Penn--but on the plane that the Crimson took to Philadelphia...
While the plane was making its final approach to Philadelphia International Airport, it had problems with its landing gear. After circling the city for 45 minutes, the plane finally made an emergency landing--with the Crimson players in crash position...
...Michael, 10, had vanished, most likely on the day their mother was killed. They have never been found, and are presumed dead. A seven-year investigation eventually led to the arrests and convictions of two men, former colleagues of Reinert's at the Upper Merion High School outside Philadelphia...
...lives. So it is no surprise that Joseph Wambaugh, the former Los Angeles cop who writes well about the police (The Blue Knights, The Onion Field), attempts to establish a gothic mood. He associates the feeling with eastern Pennsylvania's brooding Germanic influences and forbidding estate architecture. His competition, Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, prefers the interior decoration of the not-so-new journalism. She has had the doubtful advantage of interviewing the imprisoned criminals in the case, and likes to titillate readers with her reactions: "That night, after falling into a troubled sleep, I had my first dream...
...happened before in big-time sport: a team goes into a rough schedule only to learn that a clutch of key players has been suspended for allegedly taking bribes. But rarely has any ball club been hit as hard as Philadelphia's judicial team was this month. Faced by a truly daunting schedule of cases, it saw 15 of its 105 judges temporarily cleaned off the bench by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as a result of a federal probe into cash gifts by a local union. The cut may represent the largest number of trial-court judges ever suspended...