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When a particular item sells well, it often sells phenomenally well. Sales of heavyweight "reverse weave" University of Michigan sweatshirts, which were recently introduced at Ulrich's Books in Ann Arbor, have gone through the roof...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insignia-Wear Gains Popularity Among College Students | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

...there are a few problems. First, Taylor's adaptations of other people's songs are generally off. James owes a large portion of his fame to his brilliant interpretations--most notably Carole King's "You've Got a Friend" and "Up on the Roof," and Holland-Dozier-Holland's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)." While Taylor gives an interesting performance of Buddy Holly's "Every Day" on this album, his version of Burt Bacharach's "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" is completely unexceptional...

Author: By Robert A. Katz, | Title: Adult James | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...March 1985, the apartment building at 547 Riverside Drive where Schwartz had lived since 1964 was severly damaged by a fire, leaving a dozen apartments in the building's north wing uninhabitable. And it left several tenant families--including her own--without a roof over their heads...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Disaster In Morningside Heights | 11/9/1985 | See Source »

...Harvard field hockey team--battling Brown in a scoreless deadlock on the artificial surface of Warner Field on the roof of the Olney Athletic Center--perhaps the rain wasn't a bad thing. After all, the Crimson had crushed Dartmouth, 2-0, in a downpour two weeks...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stickwomen, Bruins Deadlock on Roof | 11/4/1985 | See Source »

Officials of the residence later disclosed that outside panels of the 2,800-sq.-ft. auditorium's corrugated-metal roof had been removed as part of a repair program and that rain had weakened the ceiling underneath. A plan to demolish the old structure had been postponed because of a shortage of funds. Two engineers supervising the repair work were suspended. The President of Bangladesh, Lieut. General H.M. Ershad, appointed a commission to investigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangladesh: Catastrophe in the Rain | 10/28/1985 | See Source »

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