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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observed a strange object buzzing some 160 ft. above an open field recently knew only that it was not Superman. Actually, the small oddball aircraft winging at 60 m.p.h. was Jefferson County's new law-enforcement weapon out for a test flight. Designed and built out of balsa wood and plastic by sheriffs deputies (who are also model-airplane buffs), the new gadget patrolling the skies was a pilotless plane remotely controlled from the ground. The 8-lb. airborne arsenal can carry up to 2 Ibs. of smoke bombs and tear-gas canisters-to say nothing of grenades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Unfriendly Skies | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

Other Radcliffe victories included Suki Magraw in the three slot, 6-4, 6-1; Maude Wood in the fourth singles match, 6-1, 7-6; Rita Funaro playing five, 6-1, 6-2; and Jill Robertson in the sixth position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Tennis Powerhouse Rolls On; Endicott Wins Only One Match of Nine | 10/11/1974 | See Source »

...doubles, Jinny St. Goar and Maud Wood combined for a 6-2, 6-0 win; Janet Kuhlman and Ann Ginsberg hammered out a 6-2, 6-3 victory; and Janet Clarke and Ann Koufman took...

Author: By Andy Quigley, | Title: Radcliffe Smashes Stonehill | 10/9/1974 | See Source »

Muscatine and Dizenfeld nearly ended up battling it out with the second Harvard-Radcliffe team, Maude Wood and Tucker Boynton. But Wood and Boynton fell prey to the Green in the semifinals by a 10-5 score. The pair nearly went the distance after a 10-2 victory against Yale and a close 11-9 win against Williams...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Tennis Teams Fare Well in Two Tourneys | 10/8/1974 | See Source »

...time shelling peas and chatting it up across every imaginable communications gap. The stranger at their door, though generally troubled, is rarely dangerous; his problems are readily soluble through immersion in the pot of tolerance, good will and homely wisdom always asimmering on the back burner of the old wood stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: Life on the Prairies | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

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