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Almost immediately, another volley sounded and his assailant, a black posing as a photographer who only seconds before had been filming Colombo, pitched forward face down, dead. Later identified as Jerome Johnson, 24, he had been silenced by a still unidentified league captain, Colombo bodyguard, or someone posing as part of Joe's retinue. Johnson's killer escaped as professionally as he had carried out his mission, shooting Johnson three times even as police clustered around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Mafia: Back to the Bad Old Days? | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...main column of the marchers dispersed, the battle raged over twenty city blocks. Armed vehicles and military patrols waited at street-corners without participating in the hand-to-hand fighting all around them. Snipers of unknown political orientation fired down into the street from positions on rooftops. At each volley of gunfire the people left in the street ran frantically in one new direction or another. The marchers who had taken refuge in Ruben Lenero Hospital were chased and shot...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Letter From Mexico | 6/17/1971 | See Source »

...companies, the corps paraded past another statue, Virginia Mourning Her Dead. Flowers were placed on the graves of the six young Confederates who are buried at the foot of the monument (the other four were buried elsewhere). A squad of hand-picked cadets fired a three-volley salute, and the bugler sounded taps. Then cadets and guests heard The Tribute, V.M.I. Spirit and of course Dixie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V.M.I. Remembers: The Battle of New Market | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

From the first volley of Peking's Ping Pong diplomacy, rumors began rebounding that the Chinese wanted to buy American-made jets for their state airline. Last week a senior Nixon Administration official confirmed that Peking is "interested" in acquiring 50 to 60 medium-range Boeing 727s. Boeing executives say that they have not been in contact with the Chinese but would be receptive to any inquiry. They could certainly use the extra sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST TRADE: The Wings of Mao | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

Yale's two points came at third and fourth singles. At number four. Neil Allen outlasted Bill Brock in a long match. 7-6, 4-6, 6-3. At number three. Barry Svigals adjusted to Randy Barnett's serve-and-volley style of play to stage a come-from-behind victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netmen Defeat Yale, 7-2, To Tie For 2nd in EITA | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

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