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Sophomore Lance Miller turned in a strong performance for the Crimson, preventing a Tiger sweep in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles by holding on for second place, despite a furious finish by Princeton springer James Hillbert...
...years. Two new banks have arrived in New Stanton to compete with the long established Mellon Bank branch. "And we got a dentist," adds Mayor John Reagan. "Something we never had before." Mail volume through the town post office has increased by 30% during the past year. Postmaster Henry Springer hopes that New Stanton Post Office will be elevated to first-class status, enabling it to hire more staff and lengthen hours of service...
...spent four months on the staff of Bild Zeitung (circ. 4.8 million), West Germany's largest and most lurid daily. His just-published book, arguing that the paper distorts the news, faces a court action by Bild's owner, the firm of right-wing Publisher Axel Springer. But the book seems destined for the bestseller lists...
...Springer Verlag, which owns twelve other German publications, attacked Wallraff in a sulfurous rebuttal: "He is a man who lies and falsifies stories in order to obtain material for his books." Springer went to court charging 14 specific instances of factual error. It is hardly Wallraff's first encounter with the law. He has been prosecuted twice for impersonating government and corporate employees, but the charges were dismissed. On ten other occasions, Wallraff's victims have won injunctions requiring that unsubstantiated allegations be deleted from his writings. Of the Springer petition for injunction, which may be decided this...
...year-old freshman who specializes in the 50-yard butterfly, only recently entered the world of competition on the one and three-meter spring boards. IN the water, she is, as Radcliffe assistant swim coach Paula Newman described her, "a springer." But from the diving board, she's a determined competitor who has worked hard to learn the tools of the trade...