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...track team garnered 34 points over the weekend and placed fifth in the Heptagonal while the host Princeton Tigers sped to their first Heps victory since 1938. reaping 71 points on route to the lauels...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Thinclads Take Fifth at the Haptagonals | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...removed had turned out to watch us poor, driven souls run by. To the right of our path in an empty field stood a small, unremarkable paint store with a ten-piece rock-and roll band perched on top. The music was such a boost that the entire pack sped up a full minute per mile, and I kept searching for hidden rock bands along the rest of the route...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Beyond Heartbreak Hill | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...elevators. As Mackey hid inside, the demonstrators continued their verbal assault in the hall and pasted "Mackey Mouse" stickers on the walls. Minutes later, someone spied the president escaping out a rear exit, and the crowd followed him outside the building, where an unmarked police car rescued him and sped away...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: To Serve the Masses? | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...waved his pistol toward the menacing street. "Get a police car! Get a car!" cried the men holding Hinckley. Handcuffing Hinckley and throwing a jacket over his head, the officers shoved him toward one police car, but found the rear door locked. They pushed him into a second and sped off to Washington police headquarters, some 30 blocks away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Shots at a Nation's Heart | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...Lesko met William C. Nicholls, 32, a church organist, at a downtown hotel. They commandeered his sports car and drove to Blue Spruce Lake outside Pittsburgh; they shot him, weighted him with rocks, and dropped him through a hole in the ice while he was still alive. Finally they sped past Patrolman Leonard Miller's squad car three times, until he gave chase and stopped them. They shot Miller dead at the side of the highway. After their conviction for his murder, Travaglia leaned over a courtroom rail and asked Prosecutor Tim Geary: "Are you happy? I'll be back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curse of Violent Crime | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

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