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...only possible fight is for the ninth council seat; though she appears to have enough votes, incumbent Sandra Graham could conceivably be ousted by challengers Wendy Abt or Alice Wolf...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Precarious Balance | 11/7/1981 | See Source »

Defending champion Darlene Beckford (17:25) kept pace with Wiley and Stricker through the first half of the race and held on for fifth place. Freshman Kathy Good (17:31) finished seventh, and captain Kristin Linsley (17:44) took ninth to round out Harvard's scoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Dominate Ivy Championships | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...Until he was eleven, he slept in the same bed with "Satnin'," his baby-talk name for the mother he stroked and petted until her death. Gladys did not let the boy play out of her sight until he was 15 and still walked him to school in ninth grade. At 16, Elvis transformed his paralyzing shyness into a bizarre statement: greased locks, pegged pants, mascara and eye shadow. Later he would dye his dirty-blond hair black, imitating a hoody Tony Curtis in the 1949 Brooklyn gang movie City Across the River. When Gladys died of a heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Search of Pelvis Redux | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...high spending totals "also reflect the fact that I finished ninth last time, and that I lost altogether the time before that," Wylie added...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: '81 City Council Campaign Costliest in Local History | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

Assigned to other cases in the busy Ninth Precinct, Majeski doggedly tracked Abbott in his free time. He amassed scores of details, hoping to detect a pattern and to anticipate Abbott's moves. When the fugitive left New York City, he had $200 in his pocket. He took odd jobs to earn more money, hitchhiked when he could not afford a bus, and sometimes lived off old friends or people he met along the way, to whom he introduced himself as Jack Eastman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Tracking a Murder Suspect | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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