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Other first-round match-ups pit Brown against UConn, Princeton against Cortland State, and Rochester against UMass...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Booters Host B.C. Eagles | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

...course, we could have taped the symphony playing. This is what they used to do in the early sound pictures. And we do have a tape for when the film goes on tour, for those places that have no orchestra pit. But I could think no better way to convey the excitement Gance himself brings to the audience than to have the musicians there, live...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Just Another Pretty Face | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...Conley, 30, of Herrin, is a pit committeeman for the union at Old Ben 25 mine in nearby West Frankfort. "Kerr-McGee will hire miners for Galatia out of state, where union tradition isn't strong, and pay better than union scale, scrimping on safety for their profit. With no union, anyone who complains about safety will get fired. I hate to see everything we fought for here go down the tubes. John L. Lewis would roll over in his grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: The Ghost of John L. Lewis | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...white man found it until 1911. Patallacta was between the two on a stone-paved Inca highway, part of the Royal Road that climbed and twisted more than 5,000 miles through the Andes. The town, with its 115 dwellings guarded by a hilltop fortress, probably served as "a pit stop for Incas traveling between Cuzco and Machu Picchu," says Ann Kendall, a British archaeologist who has spent 13 years studying the site. One thing is certain. Agriculture sufficient to support perhaps 5,000 people flourished at 8,000 ft. above sea level, on the high slopes of the valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Reviving Inca Waterways | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Taxes on energy resources pit the haves against the have-nots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wars Between the States | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

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