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Encouraged and trained by the local sheriff to bolster his thinly spread paid forces, such posses now number 43 in Arizona's sprawling Maricopa County. The Sun City posse is the largest and, with an average age of 68, the most elderly. The oldest participant: 84-year-old Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pension Posse | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

Yale has won a solitary Ivy League contest in each of the last three seasons. Saturday the Elis dropped the posses they were able to throw on target, ran around like excited children on offense, and sagged ferociously on defense. They were bad, and not all of it was Harvard...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Laxmen Sweep Yale, Delaware | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

Two assumptions are necessary. First, at some point in the future, the black majority will gain control of the South African government and of the societal infranstructure. There is nothing really radical or debatable about such a belief. Black South Africans, because of the strength of their numbers alone, already...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divestiture? | 5/18/1979 | See Source »

As his answers suggest, Simon does not profess to be a great dramatic theorist; he offers no analysis of the origin of comedy, including his own. He defines his talent as a gift that comes "from deep within me," eschewing any deeper analysis of his motivation. If not laden with...

Author: By Troy Segal and Michael E. Silver, S | Title: A Man of Wit and Wisdom | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

The days are gone when posses hanged such varmints from the nearest tree, but horse thievery is all too alive in the U.S. In Michigan, the Macomb County sheriffs office is looking into the disappearance of seven horses. Early this month, thieves cut the fence of the 79-acre farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Horse Cents | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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