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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police rescued the husband and eight-year-old child of an MIT professor from the Charles River's frigid waters last night after their car plunged from Soldier's Field Road into the river...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Car Plunges Into Charles, 2 Pulled From Icy Water | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

Macmillan was remarkable among his contemporaries for his great sense of camaraderie, acquired as a soldier during the slaughter on the Somme in World War I. He was fond of quoting a stanza written by British Poet Hilaire Belloc that neatly summed up his credo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Leader for the Last Days of Empire, Harold Macmillan: 1894-1986 | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

Betsy Friedberg of the Massachusetts Historical Commission said that besides technological uniqueness, the Stadium's connection with Harvard athletics and its influence on the formulation of the rules of football made it a natural selection as a historic site. "Soldier's Field has very important associations with the history ofcollegiate sport. The narrowness of the playingfield was the main reason that the rulesconcerning the forward pass were adopted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Stadium Designated Landmark | 1/9/1987 | See Source »

...certain whether North is a cause or an effect, a Lone Ranger who rode out of control or a good soldier who followed orders from above. He is an unknown who emerged from the shadows into the spotlight of what quickly became the biggest Washington scandal in more than a decade and threatens to preoccupy Americans in the year to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver North: Others In History's Spotlight | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...unbelievers when it pleased him. Even so, as Mark Twain speculated about the old warriors, "there was something very engaging about these great simplehearted creatures, (although) there did not seem to be brains enough . . . to bait a fishhook with." The knight has been Galahad, Don Quixote and every tin soldier, in Robert Louis Stevenson's couplet, "With different uniforms and drills/ Among the bedclothes, through the hills." The chevalier now answers the roll call as Rambo and G.I. Joe. He wears camouflage, may carry an UZI instead of a sword and has a way of setting off unintended explosions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: In All Seasons, Toys Are Us | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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