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...local restaurant, Richard and Deborah, both students at Cheyenne's Central High School, put their deadly plot into action. Richard, armed with a loaded 12-gauge shotgun from his father's 60-piece gun collection, lay in wait behind the garage door. Taking a back-up position, Deborah allegedly cradled a .30-cal. automatic carbine in the living room, in case their father escaped their first line of fire. The planning was unnecessary: Richard, aiming through the plywood garage door, hit his father with four pump-action blasts while his mother sat in horror...
...matter how long he survives, life will not be easy for Barney Clark. He is permanently tethered to 375 Ibs. of equipment that includes two compressors, a back-up compressor, a three-hour supply of pressurized air to operate the heart in case of a power failure, a drier to dehumidify the air, and mechanisms that control the air pressure and heart rate. All of this gear can be placed on what his doctors call a "shopping cart," which must always be within six feet of the patient, the length of the power lines that emerge from just below Clark...
Farley may see time as a back-up to junior Monroe Trout, the 225-pounder who filled the middle for Harvard last year. Just recovering from a back strain suffered in a pick-up game earlier this fall. Trout made his first appearance eight minutes and 21 seconds into last night's exhibition. Trout took command right away, grabbing two rebounds and chalking up three points in less than two minutes. Jiangsu's 6-ft., 11-in. Lee Chonshan made no move to challenge Trout, and the shorter American college student taught the Chinese high school senior how to play...
Harvard had already buried the Elis, 38-7, by the end of the third quarter, and Restic shuttled reserve players in and out for the final 15 minutes And even then, Yale couldn't stop the Crimson attack. After Harvard quarterback Don Allard departed, his back-up Ron Cuccia guided Harvard's final scoring drive of The Game and the season, and the Crimson had its record-breaking 45 points and its first win over the Elis at home since 1974 sewn up with nine minutes to play...
...sidelined throughout the season after knee surgery, finally saw playing time last night. Pike, usually apt to argue with referees, had only praise for last night's officiating Yale, which brought the bare minimum number of players, actually got half its scoring from a pair of late-season walkons...Back-up goalie Adam Button made a save for the Crimson in the final period...