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Peters arrived at the federal prison camp in Leavenworth, Kans., last Monday to begin serving an 18-month sentence. Had he killed a falcon, rather than pursued his studies on how best to preserve the birds, he would have faced lesser penalties. Peters, who is filing for a reduced sentence, says he will study the work of other raptor experts while confined in Leavenworth, which happens to be where the famous Birdman of Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, first began assembling his aviary in 1920 and wrote his digest on the diseases of birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: The Birdman of Leavenworth | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

Ethan H. Cohen '86, a council representative from Quincy House, was elected student representative to the ACSR, Picked for the Committee on Advising and Counseling were: Erica S. Eisenberg '86, a council representative from Lowell House, Lori E. Lesser '88 and Deborah Schrag...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Council Elects Student Reps To Four Faculty Committees | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...Lesser said that it is not enough to have "passive help that is there waiting for students. Instead there should be help that reaches out and grabs...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: Council Elects Student Reps To Four Faculty Committees | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...says softly. "I try to save money, live quiet and plan for retirement," he adds. Well-known wrestlers like Brody earn anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 traveling around the U.S. and to Japan-extending their professional lives into late middle-age-but for hundreds of lesser known wrestlers, the work can be unrewarding. Earning little, they spend long hours in body building, cultivating images they hope will propel them toward stardom. Often their careers never get off the ground, and they end up as bouncers and floorwalkers in Las Vegas and other resorts. Still, they keep wrestling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Wrestling with Good and Evil | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

...stayed with a foul pop-up even though Third Baseman Doug DeCinces had clearly called for it. This precipitated an extra-inning loss to Texas and so unnerved the Angels that they dropped the first three games of the climactic four-game series in Kansas City. Meanwhile, players of lesser means and greater resilience, the Minnesota Twins, were undone by a quirk. Former Royal Jamie Quirk, who began the season as a bullpen coach in St. Louis, was vacationing in the Ozarks the week before last when Cleveland called for an emergency catcher. On the way there, he paused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wait Until This Year | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

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