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Further upstream, five men identified only as Eliot House residents plunged into the breakers for a swim. Metro police persuaded them to towel...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: 500 Defy Storm, Revel By The River | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

With U2 blaring out a second-story suite, freshmen lined up on the front steps of Weid Hall to cheer on the wind--"Go! Go! Go!"--as it snapped a half-dozen trees. Freshmen Adam Green and Daniel A. H. McGiffin even rigged up a windskateboard, using a towel as a sail to propel them across the Yard's debrisspattered walkways...

Author: By Peter J. Howe and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: A Party All Over Campus | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

...late July when the tan 1980 Toyota station wagon owned by Hinckley Police Chief Mel L. Wiley, 47, turned up at Cleveland's Lakefront State Park on Lake Erie. Park rangers noticed it around 4 a.m. one Tuesday. The locked car contained Wiley's neatly stashed clothing, a towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanishing Act: Chief Wiley, meet Judge Crater | 9/2/1985 | See Source »

...just a bench," he insists. "It's the Boston Celtics' bench. It's a throne." To say the least, this attitude annoys opposing fans, who are used to brooders at the ends of benches. And the fans are right to be bothered by M.L. Carr, worrying his white towel at them like a red cloth at a bull. Even more than Larry Bird, Robert Parish or Danny Ainge, he represents what the Los Angeles Lakers ought to fear may be at work again this week. It is commonly called the Celtic Mystique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sharing of the Green | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...members of the class of 1960 and their families, there will be, of course, T-shirts and hats given out, plus visors for the women, caps for the kiddies and Harvard ties for the men. But aside from a towel, there won't be anything else for alumni to stuff into their totebag to take home this year...

Author: By John N. Rosenthai, | Title: Cashing in on Commencement | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

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