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...combination of ideals and structured meansfor action sparked many members of the class tocarry the nation's torch of public service."Kennedy probably influenced me to go toWashington to work for the next 20 years," saysMichael Abbell '61, an international criminallawyer who spent most of his career in the JusticeDepartment...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: When Camelot Came to Harvard | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Using crack is easier and less complicated than free-basing cocaine. Since powdered coke cannot be ignited and smoked, free-basers wash a cocaine base with ether to clean out impurities. Once dried, the residue is heated with a torch and smoked. The extreme volatility of ether makes this a dangerous way to get high--as the general public learned in 1980 when Comedian Richard Pryor set himself on fire while free-basing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack: A cheap and deadly cocaine is a fast-spreading menace | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...year, $66.3 million restoration, a lady needs a face-lifting. Well, maybe it was too much to expect the refurbished copper statue to shine like a newly minted penny at its rededication on July 4. Even so, why have parts of the statue's left cheek, left neck and torch arm developed what the New York Daily News last week delicately dubbed a skin problem? The dark spots, it turns out, are acid stains, caused by pollutants that began eating away at the statue's protective patina in the 1960s and cannot be removed without endangering the delicate copper sheath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monuments: The Lady Has a Problem | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Vigna needed only two sets to torch Tiger Hilary Shane...

Author: By Barbara VAN Gorder, | Title: Netwomen Fly, 7-2 | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...Proctor Emeritus in the A-entry of Mower Hall (1975-1979) I salute the current residents for upholding so vigorously a distinguished tradition of mayhem, as reported in The Crimson of April 8. Let the word go forth that the torch has been passed to a new generation of maniacs and funseekers, charging into battle, water pistols poised, the Mower motto emblazoned on their hearts: "Holworthy Sucks." Christopher H. Foreman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Go For It | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

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