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...know the rooms. The Currier Ten-Man. That one in Quincy with the deck on the library roof. You've admired them. You've partied in them. Here's what it's like to live in them...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Cult Rooms | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...will be enormous. By last week the oil slick had traveled across an 1,800-sq.-mi. area. To stop its advance, "skimming" vessels sucked up the crude for transfer to dredging barges. Onshore, ten-man crews hosed down rocks with heated seawater. The two-pronged drive to clear sea and shore was plagued by snafus and logistical problems. As the weathered oil hardened into a debris-laden "mousse," the Soviet skimming ship found that the crude was too thick for its pumps and managed to recover only a few hundred barrels. And as the point of the oil slick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Nature Aids the Alaska Cleanup | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...mercy. But after finding two white policemen guilty of murdering a black man, Justice N.W. Zietsman last week did not hesitate to apply harsh punishment. The sentence: death by hanging. The condemned men, Warrant Officer Leon de Villiers, 37, and Constable David Goosen, 27, were members of a ten-man antiriot unit in eastern Cape province that went on a "black-bashing" spree during disturbances in 1986. After concluding that one of the victims, Mlungisi Stuurman, had been too badly beaten to be let go, De Villiers ordered Goosen to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Color-Blind Justice | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

Depending on the park, nine- or ten-man baseball was observed, and the lack of a designated hitter brought out the finest stuff in McNamara. "I knew where my neck was," he said, after surviving an especially second-guessable decision, "and my body might have been in the Charles River." When New York won games three and four in Boston, dispiriting 7-1 and 6-2 games with still not a single change of lead, the home advantage started to seem a curse, though not to Ron Darling. The unlucky loser of the series' first decision ran his streak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Small Delights and a Big Chill | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...role in the Watergate break-in, will learn surveillance techniques on the streets of Miami, familiarize themselves with weapons on a nearby firing range, and practice defensive driving and counterterrorism in locations that the school refuses to name "for security reasons." Faculty members, according to Liddy, include "a ten-man Israeli commando team and two ex-British commandos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seminars: Security 101: Dirty Tricks | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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