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Various police reports say the woman is about 30 years old, with a slight limp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWA Bombing Suspect Fled to Beirut | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: Harvard hosts a tough Vermont squad Saturday, in a Soldiers Field doubleheader starting at 1 p.m.....Freshman Ellen Cox had her first start, dh-ing for Dickerman...Crowley led the Crimson with three hits...Harvard's lineup had another slight change, with Trisha Brown (formerly the number five hitter) batting cleanup, and Hayes moving from the fourth to the fifth slot...The Engineers batted around in the fifth...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Engineers Scoot Past Crimson Batswomen, 6-1 | 4/4/1986 | See Source »

Wacker also says that doctors occasionally do not see fractures on X-rays if the fractures are very slight, but that as the break heals, calcium forms over the break and reveals the fracture more plainly. This explains why one doctor might miss a fracture, whereas another doctor, who sees a patient a while later, may tell the patient that he has been walking around with a broken limb for a while...

Author: By Macla Follette, | Title: In Firm Health: Diagnosing UHS | 4/3/1986 | See Source »

...from Sunnyvale, she from San Jose.) In the freestyle final, Boitano zoomed from fourth place to first on the strength of a bravura jitterbugging performance to Gershwin and the blues. Thomas "just got inspired" after watching Boitano, and the next night, instead of playing it safe to protect a slight lead, she came on strong to a combination of Duke Ellington and ballet music in a program that contained four triple jumps, including a tricky triple-double toe-loop combination. "I don't believe it," said a tearful Thomas, who is the first black world champion ever in skating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 31, 1986 | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

Occasionally, while the elder Guinness is turning the TV dial, searching for the news or a nature program, he comes across one of his many selves. "I switch it off within 30 seconds," he says with a slight shudder. "Once I've done something, it doesn't really have any interest for me anymore." He likes movies, but he loves the stage and is even now on the lookout for a good play. At the moment Alan Bennett (The Old Country) is his favorite English playwright; David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), his favorite American. Between roles, Sir Alec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alec Guinness Takes Off His Masks | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

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