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...course, halfback Wayne Moore has been lost for the year with the broken ankle he sustained late in the UMass game. Wearing a cast two-thirds of the way up his right thigh, Moore was released from Stillman Infirmary yesterday after a six-day stint there...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Gridders Ailing As Colgate Game Looms | 10/6/1978 | See Source »

...that the shots had been fired from the Texas School Book Depository where Oswald worked. Eight out of nine forensic experts retained by the committee said it was likely that one bullet passed through the President's neck and then wounded Connally in the back, chest, wrist and thigh, thus supporting the Warren Commission's controversial "single-bullet theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Lone Assassins | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...departed for a new assignment. After an eight-hour vigil, the Palestinian was persuaded to release his hostages and surrender. As he was being led away from the embassy by police, an Iraqi security agent opened pointblank pistol fire at him. The Palestinian was hit in the thigh, and one of his French escorts was killed. In the return fire, an Iraqi security man was fatally wounded. Three Iraqis were arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The New Blood Feud: Arab vs. Arab | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...music of the samisen. In the courtyard, a ring of dancing girls, stomping about like Dionysiac butterflies under the gaze of their fellow workers on the balcony; and on the left, the bathhouse and the assignation room, where a girl in a bronze-colored robe exhibits one pale, abstract thigh with an air of consummate indifference, while the open door behind her discreetly indicates that her client has just left. Like other screens in the show, this one reminds us that - despite the wonders of democracy and industrial growth - the quality of life in Japan may not have remarkably improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Figures on the Wide Screen | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...bomb shelter is packed full now, several hundred people sitting thigh-to-thigh in a room designed to hold only a few dozen. The air is filled with a haze of tobacco from the grown-ups' chain-smoking. A grim Israeli soldier, armed with an automatic machine gun and a walkie-talkie, looks on as the children laugh merrily...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, | Title: Life Within the Bunker | 5/10/1978 | See Source »

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