Signs of summer and sports heat collide in columns
The piece blends weather alarm with sports notes. It mocks climate talk, imagines a super sports commissioner, laments Yankees manager Billy Martin’s repeated firing and divorce, and riffs on the Reagan era at a Toronto summit. It tags Pistons and Yankees loyalties with seasonal jokes.
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Pistons
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Yanks
George Steinbrenner
Martin
Steinbrenner
Billy
Rasputin
Toronto
Iowa
California
Meese Pig T shirts sell briskly in DC shop
A Washington bookstore reports strong demand for Meese Pig T shirts calling for Attorney General Edwin Meese III to resign. The shirts are produced by about 60 punk enthusiasts who began after being arrested for posters. A Justice Department spokesman says the department does not take the shirts seriously.
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Meese
Edwin Meese III
Common Concerns
Washington
David Marcuse
Justice Department
Patrick Korten
YWCA bars men despite legal threat in court battle
At a five day national meeting in Chicago the YWCA voted to keep its all female membership, rejecting full voting status for men. Tacoma chapter faces potential expulsion over hiring a male executive director. Autonomy and focus on women’s empowerment cited amid housing, jobs, and childcare challenges.
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Tacoma
Wash
Glendora Mellwain Putnam
Ational Organization
Whien Concentional
Putnam
YWCA
Young Women's Christian Association
United States
Areo
Claire Carrilt
Odgen
Utah
Armored car theft near University of Maryland
FBI said an armored van and about $750,000 were stolen after keys were left in the ignition while servicing an ATM in Baltimore downtown near the University of Maryland Student Union. The van was recovered but cash remained missing. no arrests reported.
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Baltimore
FBI
University of Maryland Student Union
Anne Arundel County
Charles Taylor
Taylor
Jose Chavarria
Mark Feighery
NCR Corp
Automatic Teller Machine Services Inc
Hollywood figures weigh in on acting and justice at festival
Mitchum, 71, says film work is about timing and lines at Troia Film Festival near Lisbon. Carol Matthau teasers a Hollywood memoir The Wrong Color Green. John Landis jurors attend a preview of Coming To America after being found innocent in Twilight Zone deaths.
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Mitchum
Lisbon
Hollywood
Carol Matthau
Walter
Never-Never Land
John Landis
Landis
Eddie Murphy
America
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Roger Aker
Wilbert Fisher
Vic Morrow
Valedictorian charged with killing mom graduation day
MIAGARA FALLS NY AP A 17 year old boy William Shrubsall faced murder charges after confessing to killing his mother Marianne Shrubsall with a baseball bat during an argument around 3 AM on the day he was to graduate as valedictorian from LaSalle High School. The case shocked a class of 250 as the graduation went ahead without a valedictory address.
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N.Y
Richard Clute
William Shrubsall
Marianne
Clute
Shrubsall
LaSalle High School
Ralph Guerrucci
Guerrucci
Adamec
Paul Cleary
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Terry Adamec
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