Word: toms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atlanta has one of the most rapidly declining juvenile-crime rates in the country?along with some of the strictest judges. Chief Judge Tom Dillon insists that offenders be tried within ten days after they are indicted. "A child's memory is short," says Dillon. "The sooner facts are presented after the offense has occurred, the better it is for everyone, most of all for the child...
True, the chapter is over, but the book is far from finished. All factors indicate that this past season's 22-7 record will be the team's poorest for at least a couple of years. Only one starter, Captain Tom Joyce, will be missing next year, and Park finds himself with an overabundance of substitutes there. The all-freshman infield of Bingham, Stenhouse, Burke, St. John and Rick Pierce "should be the best defensive infield I've ever had at Harvard in another year," Park noted. Singleton will continue his leadership in center field and everywhere else. The arms...
...basement of the Cannon Building and mounted his ten-year-old, three-speed Sears bike. He pumped out on New Jersey Avenue, rounded the corner to Independence Avenue. Beautiful day, he mused to himself. "Hi fellows!" he yelled to The Bronx's Mario Biaggi and fellow Oklahoman Tom Steed. They stared, then laughed and waved...
Unfortunately the wilderness is far more fragile than it looks. The growing interest in backpacking has intensified traffic on some hiking trails, causing serious erosion. "These are environmentally concerned people," says Tom Wilson, an N.P.S. official. "They don't chop down trees or litter. But the mere fact that they're here can wear out trails. These are fragile ecosystems...
...Flatt. Many of those present, however, were less interested in the stars onstage than in the chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute and a banjo picker who has been coming to Bean Blossom since Monroe's first festival in 1967. "The rudiments are easy to learn-although there's no end to what can be done in terms...