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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MacDonald is playing hockey for Lugano, one of 10 Swiss teams in a top European hockey league. The team has captured the league championship two of the past three years and, seven weeks into this season, holds second place. MacDonald, who skates on the top line, has seven goals in his first 14 outings...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Lugano's Newest American Import | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

Brian "Crimson" Keys leads the Quakers. The All-American can become only the third Ivy back ever to amass 3000 career yards rushing. Keys leads the nation in all-purpose yardage and is a leading candidate for the top 1-AA player in the country. Princeton, however, shut down the mobile senior last week, limiting him to just 65 yards on the ground. The Tigers dominated the Quakers, thrashing them...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Slumping Quakers to Challenge Gridders Tomorrow | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

Critics and supporters alike of 1-2-3 said that the unusually high voter turnout that hurled Vice Mayor Alice K. Wolf to the top of the City Council preliminary vote count would probably ensure the referendum's failure...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Results May Indicate Defeat of Prop 1-2-3 | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

...silly--or scary, depending on how you look at it. Though the program was secret, it never ranked especially high on the FBI's agenda. I suppose they realized that any spy who had to find his information in Popular Mechanics couldn't be one of the Kremlin's top-guns...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Tinker, Taylor, Librarian, Spy | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

Sullivan, the top vote-getter in every electionfrom 1961 to 1987, received 3738 votes in 1975,making him the last candidate to beat Wolf's totalthis year...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Wolf Tops City Council Voting | 11/9/1989 | See Source »

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