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...follow me if you want to know the quickest way back," said Bruin goalie Jim Craig, en route from practice to his Brookline home to watch soap operas. "But I don't think you'll keep up. I don't mean to lose you or anything--it's just the way I drive...

Author: By Lucy M. Schulte, | Title: Jim Craig: Life in the Fast Lane | 10/9/1980 | See Source »

...just as a criminal learns to spot a plainclothesman by some quirk of manner or dress, or a basketball star tells a head fake from a real jump shot by some giveaway preliminary movement. He even has a solution to the age-old problem of how to choose the quickest line at a fast-food restaurant: go for the one with the most young adults wearing backpacks; they generally turn out to be students or bicycle riders ordering only for themselves and not for families or groups. Says Archer: "I believe we must unshackle ourselves from the tendency to ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Heeding Those Subtle | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...white vests, fashioned from tablecloths, 128 Carter floor whips watched for any delegates who looked wobbly on the rule. In a three-hour rehearsal they had discovered that they could send orders to all the Carter delegates on the jammed floor within seven minutes. They had memorized the quickest routes through the nearly always clogged aisles to the alternate delegates seated in tiers above the floor. They had run through an imaginary roll call. They were in instant communication with the command trailers just off the convention floor. They were ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Madison Square Garden of Briars | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...movie, rated X on its release nearly a decade ago, "seemed the quickest and easiest way to make up more than $500 in debts," John Donahue '80, past president of the film society, said yesterday...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Debt-Ridden Quincy Film Club To Show Movie 'Deep Throat' | 5/9/1980 | See Source »

Rick Kief notched the quickest pin of the afternoon when he shot a double leg take down against Lowell's 142-lb. Chris Bradford. Fighting hard, Bradford lost it all moments later when Kief switched to a headlock at 1:50 into the match...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Crimson Matmen Pulverize Opposition | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

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