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While the Rutgers team spat into the Charles in the rain, and her team splashed each other, lightweight coach Lisa Hansen said. "It was a good race. I like those kinds of races winning from behind...

Author: By Peter G. Wilcox, | Title: Lightweights Garner Top Spots; Heavies Falter, Finish Second | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

With the Soviet Communist Party's 26th Congress set to open in Moscow this week, the public spat over Poland raised tensions between the Moscow and Rome Communists. Berlinguer made it clear that he would not bend before blunt Moscow messages. "We will stick to our road, whatever the initiatives or in comprehensions of other Communist parties might be," he told a crowd of Communist employees in Turin last week. Clearly that road would not lead to Mos cow. P.C.I, officials confirmed that Berlinguer, for the first time, would be absent from the Italian delegation at world Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big-Brotherly Blast | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...spat over union hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Honda Discord | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

When London's West Ham United lost 3-1 to Madrid's Castilla last month, the English soccer team's unruly fans urinated and spat on Spanish supporters, pelted the field with beer cans and fought with local police. To show that it would no longer put up with such antics, which are fast becoming a fixture of soccer matches, the European Football Union levied the penultimate penalty: West Ham would have to play its home game to an empty house. Last week the two teams played an evening match before a genteel throng...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Silent Night | 10/13/1980 | See Source »

...abortion case, Justice Thurgood Marshall asserted that the majority ruling would drive many women "to back-alley butchers." Justice Potter Stewart chose to dramatize his dissent in the contracting-quotas case by reading it aloud. He accused the court majority in effect of endorsing "racism," and he practically spat out the word. Justice John Paul Stevens added that if race is to be a criterion for receiving public funds, the Government will have to start spelling out who belongs to what race. He bitterly suggested as a model a Nazi law defining who is to be considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Four Big Decisions | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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