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Three years ago junior Ray Peters tore the Eastern League apart and led the Crimson to the NCAA World Series. Unfortunately for Park, Peters was so good that he accepted a contract with the Seattle Pilots the next spring and commuted to Cambridge for hour exams and finals...
...bike culture burgeoned, the Angels' legend became as grimy as their beards, Levi's and leather vests. In 1965 they tore up an Oakland peace rally. Four years later came Altamont. Commissioned to protect Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones at a rock concert held at the California speedway, the Angels waded into the crowd with pool cues, leaving an 18-year-old black, Meredith Hunter, dead in their wake. (The Angel who killed him was acquitted on the ground of self-defense.) It all bolstered the legend that the Angels were the toughest, meanest cyclists around...
...have one little insurance policy -my wheelchair. They might hesitate before shooting a man in a wheelchair." In mid-January, Mijangos, who was paralyzed from the waist down, was shot in the back 27 times as he was leaving his office building-in his wheelchair. His law students tore to shreds a floral wreath sent by the ultraconservative president of Guatemala's congress, Mario Sandoval Alarc...
Campbell was in the center of the main tornado that tore a half-mile-wide swath through Inverness. For perhaps a minute, he sat in suspended motion as much of the world about him caved in or exploded outward. "One house suddenly came apart like a dollhouse," he recalls. "The roof flew up, the walls spread out, and I could see two elderly persons, colored folks, crouched inside. Then everything sprang right back on top of them and they disappeared...
Miss Adie Thorton lived alone in her house. "It tore the place to bits," she says. "I was in a corner, and all of a sudden a great big piece of concrete flew in and then flew out. I screamed and that's all I remember." Miss Thorton hurt her neck, though not seriously...