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...other team was keeping close, I think they were from somewhere in Connecticut. The game all came down to the closing minutes with McInally throwing a pass to this other guy Curry and Holt leading his charges downfield on a clutch drive and scoring the winning touchdown with sixteen seconds left...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: I Was a Teenage Television Addict | 1/20/1978 | See Source »

...Sixteen law school groups organized the demonstration to protest the planned appearance of U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger as the judge for the annual Ames Court competition, but U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall replaced Burger, who entered the hospital last week suffering from a serious back condition...

Author: By Susan D. Chira and Alan Cooperman, S | Title: Large Crowd Assembles Outside Ames Competition To Protest Burger Court | 11/18/1977 | See Source »

...other end of the spectrum there are young escape artists. Sixteen-year-old Mark Nelson performs escapes in the St. Paul area, including the strait jacket and the Houdini water can. Nelson is obviously enthusiastic about adopting a life in the escape business. He should be. He has reportedly dropped out of high school to devote full time to escapes...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Fit to be Tied | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...martyrs to the union, were killed. One young woman, Marta Rodriguez who used to drop by the Ortizes' home on some evenings, was beaten and arrested during this strike. Francisco Ortiz told me how he was arrested during that summer and kept in jail in a crowded cell for sixteen days, fed on cold rice and water, and allowed to wear only his underwear. Josefina Ortiz was sprayed with a pesticide while on a picket and she developed a sore that took three years to heal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Activism: UFW Summer '77 | 10/4/1977 | See Source »

...Sixteen innings 0-0. That was the way the last game of the series between the Sox and Athletics wound up. People who left the park at the finish, four minutes before 7 o'clock, did not regret the loss of supper half as much as they would have regretted missing that ball game...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Ring Remembered | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

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