Word: trios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most conspicuous of the returning veterans in the high-scoring "Local Line" of All-American center Dave Hynes, All-East forward Bob McManama and All-Ivy wing Bill Corkery. Last year the trio accounted for 148 of Harvard's 331 points. Hynes and McManama tied for the team scoring lead with 54 points each, while Corkery was second with 40 points...
...suspicion of rape in Detroit, where they had once sued the city for $4,000,000 for alleged police brutality. Cale, Moore's half brother, had been serving time in the Tennessee State Penitentiary for grand larceny, and was a recent escapee from a work release center. The trio managed to get past Southern agents by the old and obvious device of concealing their weapons in a raincoat and passing it back and forth...
Courage. Airborne, the trio brandished their weapons and ordered the pilot to make a refueling stop at Jackson, Miss., then head for Detroit. Since embarrassment helps keep people in line, the three also forced the male passengers to strip to their underwear. The hijackers soon broadcast their ambitious demand: $10 million in cash. Southern Airways placed $500,000 aboard an aircraft and dispatched it to Detroit in hopes of a settlement. Despite the efforts of Detroit officials to talk the hijackers into landing, they made the pilot shoot across Lake Erie to Cleveland's Hopkins Airport. Meanwhile, the passengers...
...route, the trio maniacally distributed money up and down the aisle while reassuring the passengers that they had nothing against them. At José Martí terminal in Havana one of the gunmen disembarked to dicker with Cuban officials; he returned two hours later grousing: "These people here treat you worse than George Wallace or Lester Maddox." The plane headed back to the U.S. and eventually landed at McCoy A.F.B. in Orlando. There the odyssey nearly ended in disaster. After the hijackers demanded to talk to President Nixon, the word came down from Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray that...
...American halfback Dick Jauron, halfback Rudi Green, and fullback Tyrell Hennings make up the Yale wish bone's trio of runners. Cozza has nothing but favorable comments about Jauron, who is playing the last game of his Yale career today. "He's not only an All-American player, he's an All American boy." Cozza said...