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...however, a good thing for Jim Callinan. That play set him coasting on his way to 188 yards on 15 carries (a 12.5 average), including another long touch-down romp--a 66-yard scamper in the third quarter--and three touchdowns. He also caught six passes, most of them screens from back-up quarterback Donnie Allard out of the quarterback-in-motion alignment, for 86 yards...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Callinan, Gridders Thrash Penn, 45-7 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...City. The already swarming Rikers Island "correctional facility," 99 per cent full to capacity a year ago, is now crowded more than 10 per cent above its formal limits. Yet Mayor Edward Koch continues to blast "soft judges" who refuse to lock up all offenders. Meanwhile, Koch, who will romp to re-election this year, has cut back the budgets of the few departments designed to ease inmates back into society--Probation, Parole, and Mental Health. Sadly, Americans everywhere--obsessed by only political issues of the self, like interest rates--have taken no notice of the horror that we call...

Author: By Paul A. Englemayer, | Title: Justice's Many Faces | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...some were more alike than others." Dirk Dolfin, a one-man Dutch conglomerate with wavy blond hair and dazzling teeth, possesses the two essentials of a De Vries hero: galloping lust and crawling remorse. He is as briskly efficient at lovemaking as he is at self-reproach. After a romp among the paper clips, Dirk's afterplay consists of pillow talk about eternal damnation. Then, subsequent to monologues on, say, the doctrine of supralapsarianism, the old Dutch cleanser marches his partner to the tub and scours her flesh with the same manic energy normally devoted to saucepans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Galloping Lust, Crawling Remorse | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...Soviet Union scored five unanswered goals in the third period to romp past Team Canada, 8-1, and capture the second Canada Cup in Montreal last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McEnroe Defeats Borg in U.S. Open; USSR Topples Canada in Canada Cup | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Bott and Willet, the two sparkplugs of the back line, forced them to leave the game and stalled two Crimson drives deep in Bear territory. Bott pulled up lame on a breakaway with five minutes left in regular time, and Willet left the contest moments after his 35-yd. romp during overtime...

Author: By Steven J. Rosston, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Ruggers Lose, 6-3, In NCAA Finals | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

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