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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then, Ciavaglia asked the puck out to dance and ran circles around a dizzy Mezzatti for Harvard's fifth goal...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Why are the Winners Looking So Darned Glum? | 3/19/1988 | See Source »

FLORENZO DiDonato campaigns every time an election rolls around. It doesn't seem to matter to him which office he's running for. In last week's primary DiDonato, a local resident, was third on the ballot for President. In 1986 he ran for the 8th Congressiona! district seat. To my knowledge, he's never won anything, and it seems a shame...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: Mr. President, a-la Megabucks | 3/16/1988 | See Source »

...place, he offers vignettes of black heroism drawn from his own research and hundreds of interviews with veterans. One is of Lieut. Ellison C. Wynn, executive officer of a half-black company pinned down when the Chinese swarmed over the Yalu River in November 1950. When ammunition ran out, Wynn waded into battle, throwing rocks and canned C rations at the enemy. He was finally dropped by a Chinese grenade but survived to collect a Distinguished Service Cross. The maligned 24th Infantry, Blair points out, arrived from Japan 17 days after the North Korean attack, and within a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Marks THE FORGOTTEN WAR by | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

After a promising debut, the car got into trouble. Last year GM had to conduct a reputation-denting recall of all 1984 models because of a defect that occasionally caused engine fires. Fiero's demise may also have been helped along by steep insurance rates, which ran as high as $5,000 in some states because the young unmarried men who favored the auto were generally considered high-risk drivers. Fiero suffered too from a surfeit of two- seaters. With as many as five other such cars seeking a chunk of a dwindling market, Fiero sales fell from nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Building Less Excitement | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Meanwhile, blood continued to be spilled in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where at least six more Palestinian deaths were reported. Though the violence is three months old, Israeli TV viewers were shocked last week when the state- owned station ran footage of four soldiers savagely beating two bound Palestinians. The segment, filmed by a CBS crew and shown on U.S. television two weeks ago, was heavily edited, but the clips were still more graphic than Israelis are accustomed to seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Let the Chess Game Begin | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

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