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...Columbus, Ohio, native tied the score, rocketing a four-run blast over the left field fence for the Crimson's first grand slam of the campaign...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Pounds Dartmouth, 8-4, 10-4 | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...without the blooming azaleas and dogwood that provide what may be the most beautiful setting in all of sport, the Masters would be unequaled as a place to take the measure of the game's old champions and new challengers. It is the only one of golfs Grand Slam foursome annually contested over the same course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf's New Man to Beat | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

...long trapezoidal model, with its almost triangular cross section. Both missiles are also launched in the same manner. Immediately after being dropped from either wing pylons or out of the B-52's underbelly, air-intake scoops for the rear-mounted engine pop open, wings slam out with enough force to cut a man in half, and the engine begins to whine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Great Cruise Race | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...dreadlocks and kielbasa, an "industrial squeeze" that "looks like a luxury,/Feels like a disease." This is Modern Man bombarded by machines, crying for the human touch as he vocally ascends the scale to keep from being swallowed, and succumbs with a heart-rending wail. The song is followed slam-bang by "Beaten To the Punch," in which Elvis races to keep up with the noisy, busy instruments, seizing opportunities before everyone else, and discovering, as he goes under with a shriek, that he has become a prisoner of his choices...

Author: By D. BRUCE Edelstein, | Title: Abyss and Costello | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

Griffith, who had a game-high 24 points and started the game with a sensational slam dunk, missed a 15-footer in the final second that would have given the Cardinals a victory in regulation time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iowa Deals Shock to Syracuse In NCAA Regional Semi-Final | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

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