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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then drugging and robbing them. Not long ago, before getting down to work in a pigeon's apartment, she and he paused to watch West Germany's favorite TV show, Aktenzeichen: XY . . . Ungelost (Case: XY . . . Unsolved). Suddenly, to her horror, the program began to dramatize her own racket and displayed a mug shot of Hilde herself. She snapped off the set, but it was too late. Although her victim failed to recognize her, one of his neighbors did. The police were alerted, and she was immediately arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Gangbusters, German-Style | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...Bobby didn't break a racket all afternoon-not even accidentally. That's composure, especially when you consider the match during his high school days in Washington. D.C. when he destroyed four of them...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 4/28/1970 | See Source »

...Cavanagh picked up a second-hand girl's tennis racket in the ninth grade and taught himself how to play tennis on the asphalt public courts of Cranston, R.I. He never received any lessons or any formal high school coaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hackey, Net Star Joe Cavanagh Is American Dream Come True | 4/24/1970 | See Source »

Cavanagh committed the atrocious faux-pas of wearing madras shorts instead of whites and carying one racket instead of two, but the members recovered from their shock and he taught all summer. They never realized that their children were taking lessons from someone who had no idea how to properly stroke a tennis ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hackey, Net Star Joe Cavanagh Is American Dream Come True | 4/24/1970 | See Source »

Thomas packs a lot of force in a conventional serve, and with his agility is able to gamble on some side shots. He has played ping-pong with his partner, Roth, for the past two years, and knows his style well. "Paul has been playing racket sports for a long time, and he is a very dependable ping pong man," Thomas said, yesterday...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Northeastern Hosts Ping Pong Tourney | 4/11/1970 | See Source »

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