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...tackling a guy and I fell on his shoe and a lot of guys fell on me." Ford said of the way he bruised his abdomen in the UMass game. He'll probably return for Saturday's showdown with Princeton...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Demolition Derby | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

Like the intrusion of politics, the hypocrisy of amateurism once was high in the criticisms of the Olympics. But the Americans have recently taken care of that by validating the bribes that U.S. athletes used to take from promoters and shoe manufacturers, and by instituting above-the-table "trust funds" that have turned the state-supported professionals of other countries into the poor relatives. The Olympics has many unseemly sides: jingoism, less than perfectly impartial officiating, drugs. But if there was a single scandal that narrowed the 1984 field to one, it was the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eve of a New Olympics | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...remorseless now as he was then, the kind of character that John Wayne was fond of portraying-true grit without forgiveness, to be admired, but from a safe distance." Moss had come to Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker, at Binion's Horse shoe Casino. Binion's is the no-limit joint, famous for accepting a $777,000 bet in 1980 from a man who walked in with a suitcase full of cash, rolled the dice once, won and vanished into the desert with two suitcases full of cash. By the time Alvarez caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Freeze-Out | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...same man reportedly took off the left shoe of a woman in a fifth-floor library stair-way Wednesday and insisted on holding her foot until she broke free...

Author: By Ucla DAILY Bruin, | Title: Foot Molester | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

...with a plain white lavatory and plain white tub, a toilet paper holder that does not work, and that is all. There is not a filling station in Orange or Chatham County that does not have a better bathroom. It is plainer than an old shoe." Beyond that, the Landmark went on to insinuate that the management of the News & Observer has been known to "push biddies in the creek." Windsor admits he made up this heinous crime, drowning chicks, but says he was sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

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