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...only score of the day came in the second quarter on a 28-yd. strike from Holy Cross quarterback Zane Zamenski to wide receiver Bernie Kueny. On first down, Zamenski dropped back into the pocket and hit Kueny two steps ahead of Crimson defender Stephen Waters. Crusader Ken Jepson's extra point was the last score of the day as both sides battled up and down the field during the remaining half...
...killed. The pair had been spotted in New York City on a Queens highway. They were riding in a car bearing a license plate seen on another car at the Nyack Shootout. Last week their connection with the robbery was confirmed by a souvenir found in Smith's pocket: a spent .38-cal. bullet, which had apparently failed to penetrate the bulletproof vest he was wearing. The slug was traced to the gun of Sergeant Edward O'Grady, one of the two policemen killed in Nyack. "Very strong evidence," said Rockland County District Attorney Kenneth Gribetz. Burns...
...year's end: more than $30 billion. The surest indicator of the current dominance of fitness was the flood of applicants for the twelfth New York City Marathon last Sunday. New York Road Runner's Club President Fred Lebow spent $1,000 out of his own pocket a decade ago, when 233 marathoners entered the event. This year 25,000 runners applied for 16,000 places. Replete with controversy over mismanagement and under-the-table payments to top amateurs, the race garnered the ultimate American status symbol of sport: a national television contract on which ABC expects...
Assigned to other cases in the busy Ninth Precinct, Majeski doggedly tracked Abbott in his free time. He amassed scores of details, hoping to detect a pattern and to anticipate Abbott's moves. When the fugitive left New York City, he had $200 in his pocket. He took odd jobs to earn more money, hitchhiked when he could not afford a bus, and sometimes lived off old friends or people he met along the way, to whom he introduced himself as Jack Eastman...
...duchy's revenues fifty-fifty with the Treasury; last year he collected ?275,000 tax free (more than $500,000). As the result of a new Treasury agreement, Charles, with an 18th century home in Gloucestershire and a suite in Kensington Palace to keep up, will now pocket 75% of the revenues...