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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tricky part of any drug deal: the exchange. Hetrick said the cocaine was secreted in a car. Arrington, Hetrick's gofer, drove the C.I. and Scotti to the Van Nuys Airport in the San Fernando Valley. Arrington parked the car and went off to get the drug-loaded auto. He soon arrived in a Chevrolet Caprice. He reached under the dashboard, flipped a switch?and the back of the rear seat flipped forward. "Go ahead, take a look," Arrington told Scotti. The agent found a number of large brown packages wrapped in masking tape. He pierced one with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bottom Line... Busted | 11/1/1982 | See Source »

Last year, close friends and fierce competitors--Jenny Stricker and Kate Wiley--spent their freshman seasons as cross country runners shattering records and swapping first place finishes back and forth. Yesterday, in New York's sun-speckled Van Cortlandt Park they dredged up those memories as Harvard stomped all over seven other contenders to recapture the laurels in the Ivy League Championships...

Author: By Caroline R. Adams, | Title: Wiley Makes a Late Surge Taking Race and Record | 10/30/1982 | See Source »

Although Princeton trounced Harvard. Haggerty believes his squad will perform well in the Hectagonal Championships next Friday at Van Courtlandt Park, New York. The Ivy schools, along with Army and Navy, will compete...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Sweep, Men Split Against Elis, Tigers | 10/23/1982 | See Source »

Just nine days after the cab she was riding in was hit broadside by a van, Mary Martin, 68, with a plucky smile and the help of a walker, left San Francisco General Hospital. Though her longtime friend Actress Janet Gaynor remains in stable condition from the accident, Martin was adamant that the show go on-in this case, Over Easy, the PBS-TV program for older Americans that she co-hosts with Jim Hartz. With her two broken ribs and fractured pelvis on a slow mend, she taped her first postaccident show (which began airing last week). "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 18, 1982 | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...stations where a range of goods and services is on sale. Texaco's familiar star is given new prominence by being displayed in white on a red circle against a black background. The company's black, white and red service stations have a clean, nononsense, Mies van der Rohe look. The only adornments are deadpan signs reminding customers to turn off their engines, check the oil and, with gas sales dropping because of fuel-efficient engines, urging them to get a car wash, snacks or cigarettes. To date, 94 new Texaco stations have been built and more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Heraldry for the Industrial Age | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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