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Harvard outshot Yale in every period but the second, including 11-2 in the third and 7-4 in the overtime. But again and again, Tortorella was there to pickpocket the Crimson forwards...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Icemen Hog-Tied By Elis at Bright Center, 1-1 | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...Angels' effort to forge a national network has had mixed success. In New Orleans Angels have nabbed a knife-wielding robber with a record of 57 previous arrests and a pickpocket who turned out to be a murder suspect wanted by police. In other cities, their impact is not so clearly evident. A police spokesman in Pasadena, assessing their performance in patrolling the Tournament of Roses Parade, summed up the verdict of many observers: "No runs, no hits and no errors." In Boston the Angels predicted that there would be 250 volunteers on patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guardian Angels' Growing Pains | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...House also quickly and quietly voted itself a nice little Christmas gift, doubling to more than $18,000 the amount of outside income members will be permitted to earn each year. "This is the pickpocket's way," cried dismayed Republican Millicent Fenwick of New Jersey after the unrecorded vote. The Representatives also voted to allow themselves tax deductions for the cost of maintaining a second residence in Washington. The sneaky, swift maneuvers seemed particularly ill suited in this season of fiscal austerity. Other last-minute actions: the narrow approval, by a 205-to-203 vote, of a scaled-back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Both Santa and Scrooge | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...love with Daniel (Thelonious Bernard), a French boy just her age. Parents get in the way, but the children find an ally in an elderly French windbag (played foxily by Laurence Olivier) who says that he is a retired diplomat, but who turns out to be an unretired pickpocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Sure enough. Entering a new car, they find a pickpocket rolling a drunk. When he sees the patrol, the nimble-fingered dude just smiles and slips away emptyhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Magnificent 13 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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