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...Thrice in a 15-play march third downs required something wonderful. On a third-and-18 play near midfield, Coach Dan Reeves advised Elway to try for just half of it, recalling the cautious voice of Baltimore Coach Weeb Ewbank that Johnny Unitas never heeded in the Colt-Giant sudden-death championship game of 1958. Elway completed his 20-yd. pass to Mark Jackson, and another of 5 yds. for the touchdown. In terms a Giant can understand, pro football had a new standard for closing flourishes. No less an authority than Dallas' Tom Landry, New York's defensive coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Elway and The Giant Way | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Tech-Tel received an initial grant of $25,000 in 1985 as winner of the foundation's thrice-annual competition for grants. The Annenberg Project awarded the remainder of the funding after the pilot project proved successful, said Myers...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Math Class Will Attend Lectures at Home | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson, relying on four singles and two stolen bases, scored thrice in the first inning off pitcher Jim Duchesneau to improve its chances for a sweep...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Batsmen Break Even | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Robert Brown, 42, Stow, Mass., international marketing director for the Boston Scientific Corp., a medical equipment company. An ex-Marine captain thrice decorated during Viet Nam duty, Brown was kicked in the face by one of the hijackers. The blow broke a blood vessel in his left eye that took eight days to heal. Later, Brown and three other captives were locked up for days in an underground room, 20 ft. square, which he believes was a command bunker. Brown, who kept a diary on folded white paper, got to be known as "the Coach" by his fellow hostages because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roach Races and Russian Roulette * | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...defense attempted to depict Isles to the press as a spurned, vindictive woman, not even faithful to the unfaithful Claus. Puccio, admitting that his client had strung Isles along, said that Von Bulow may have been a "cad," but he was not a murderer. Andrea Reynolds, Von Bulow's thrice-married Hungarian-born companion, told the New York Post: "Alexandra is a very pretty girl, but she is not what I call marriage material." Why not, pray tell? "She doesn't seem to be very monogamous, my dear," sniped Reynolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Love Or Money? | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

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