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...Bernheimer, who played at number four last year, saw his first action of the season against Joe Purdee. The sophomore broke his wrist in September, then suffered a sprained ankle during the squad's trip to England. But Bernheimer was back in prime form, capturing a 15-3, 15-8, 15-4 victory over Purdee...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Crimson Squash Cadets; Extends Streak to 62 | 11/1/1988 | See Source »

...mask. Again--Waits in a satin white jacket. Chuckling, he turns away, pulls a sheet over his boots and jeans, and falls asleep. The TV fritzes again, as it does between scenes through out the movie, and we're with Waits onstage in the white jacket--cuffs too short, wrist loaded with bad watches--telling smarmy, cynical jokes...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Tom Waits: Making it Big | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...plays the woolly renegade to what he calls "the coat-and-tie boys" who surround Bush. He is gargantuan in his appetites -- for food, amusement, combat and attention. In a fight with two leather-jacket types in a Houston hotel lobby in 1984, he broke one man's wrist and tossed the other man into the lobby fountain. Just last week, annoyed that no one had repaired a bowed table in Bush campaign offices, Ailes walked into a roomful of aides, grabbed the conference table and flipped it over. He nurtures his pugnacious image as carefully. "If people know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans;The Man Behind the Message | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...police, he loaded a handgun and went outside. Rowan says he came face to face with a "tall man who was smoking something that I was absolutely sure was marijuana." After the man ignored warnings and lunged toward him, says Rowan, he fired once, wounding the intruder in the wrist. Police identified the trespasser as Ben N. Smith, 18, who, along with at least three others, had apparently scaled Rowan's 8-ft. fence for a dip in the swimming pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Gunning For It | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...child was not critically injured--he was treated and released from a hospital the same day for a broken wrist, fractured skull, and head and facial injuries--and the University paid for all medical expenses. But the accident left Carpenter staff angry and spurred the University to reexamine its campus safety procedures...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: A Child's Fall Prompts City Safety Reviews | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

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