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January 29, 6:40 p.m.--An employee at the Holyoke Center garage told University and Cambridge police that a Black male wearing a ski mask and carrying a .38 caliber reveiver approached the toll booth and demanded money. The employee gave him $100, but the man demanded the blue bag containing the booth's bank deposit of $600. The employee gave the man the bag, and the man fled up the ramp to Holyoke St., turning at the top of the ramp to fire a shot at the booth and take off his mask. He then fled up Mt. Auburn...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Police Blotter | 2/5/1982 | See Source »

...skimpy pair of short. I would not be surprised if that were a plug for her Latest venture into the literary world June Fonda's Workout Book. All those years of campaigning for Tom Hayden and making set-fi poem films for Roger Vadim have not taken their toll on Jane. It is a good plug...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: On Golden Caramel | 2/4/1982 | See Source »

American salesmen this month are blitzing television viewers with offers for everything from fish scalers to phonograph records. To order a product the buyer dials a toll-free 800 number on the screen. The offers come thickest in the slow after-Christmas period, when television advertising time is cheaper and consumers are too pooped to return to stores. The marketers ring up 40% of their annual sales in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bells Are Ringing | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...hypothermia (low body temperature), heart attacks and a variety of icy disasters. By far the most tragic accident was the crash in Washington, D.C., of a Florida-bound Boeing 737 that plowed across a traffic-clogged bridge over the Potomac and plunged into the icy river. The death toll: 78, including three infants. The most prominent explanation of the crash cited ice that may have glazed the plane's wings and tail, and could have acted as a drag on the aircraft as it took off during a snowstorm (see following story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Numbing of America | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...government fights its left-wing opponents, the death toll is staggering and still on the rise. Last year an average of 300 people a month were killed, or simply disappeared, as anonymous death squads, sent out by both sides, did their work. In recent months the number of deaths has climbed toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: A New and Deadly Phase | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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