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Those hoping to rub elbows with the athletes are likely to be disappointed, as Harvard, Cambridge, and Olympic security are cooperating in a massive effort to guard the players. Harvard's athletic department will fence a path from Dillon Field House to Harvard Stadium to shield players' comings and goings...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: The Greening of Harvard Stadium | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

...million a week; by its second year, the take had plummeted to $900,000. (It now averages $1.2 million a week.) "In lottery operations, you have to keep innovating to be successful," says Douglas Gordon, executive director of the Washington, B.C., lottery, which started in 1982 with an "instant" rub-off card, later added a three-digit numbers game, and last month introduced a Lotto contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gambling on a Way to Trim Taxes | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...LaBrava, tools around South Miami Beach in a stolen Eastern Airlines wheelchair "because he didn't like to walk and because he thought it was cool." Cornell Lewis, a black ex-con houseman for a high roller in Stick, explains his boss: "What the man likes is to rub up against danger without getting any on him. Make him feel like the macho man ... See, he sits there at the club with his rich friends? Say, oh yeah, I go right in the cage with 'em. They don't hurt me none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Dickens from Detroit | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...children. His parents made a comfortable living running a general store founded by his great-grandfather, who emigrated from the Spanish province of Galicia in 1870. His father, Serafin, was a fervent supporter of the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, and that sense of commitment seemed to rub off on his son. Says Alfonsin: "I came from a home atmosphere where liberty was not only learned from books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raul Alfonsin: Lawyer from Chascomus | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Reveling in the thrill of victory, native Australian Alan Fekete commented, "We'll probably just rub their faces in the dirt and leave it at that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Australians Celebrate, Wave Native Colors in Victory | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

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