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Soccer 'war' won by El Salvador, 3-2
MEXICO CITY (UPI) -- El Salvador defeated Honduras, 3-2, in a soccer match climaxing a bitter feud and severing of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Soul session in Vietnam
By STEWART KELLERMAN
CAMP HOLLOWAY, Vietnam, April 25, 1971 (UPI) -- Brother Bill flipped on the music. Brother Rob lit up a joint and passed it around. Brother Larry opened the beers and handed them out.
Campus life at University of Florida
By DAVID L. LANGFORD
GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 16, 1971 (UPI) -- A man over 30 instinctively wants to bolt and run when he's sitting in a college girl's dormitory room and someone raps on the door.
Midnight at Piccadilly Circus
By ROBERT MUSEL
LONDON, May 16, 1971 (UPI) -- It is midnight in Piccadilly, a cold spring night with a faint mist barely burning the neon enticements for rum and beer and vermouth and Coca-cola. The great tide of humanity that daily washes over the center of the city has now finally receded to the residential districts, driven back by the early shutdown of public transport.
He slept through his dream
By RICHARD M. SUDHALTER
LONDON, Sept. 28, 1971 (UPI) -- Hiroyuki Ohno spent $1,358 and flew halfway round the world for a dream, then dreamed it all away by taking a nap.
The way to Leningrad
By RICHARD C. LONGWORTH
LENINGRAD, Jan. 11, 1973 (UPI) -- It was 3:30 a.m. when the overnight train from Helsinki to Leningrad crossed the Soviet border. The old man woke quickly when the border police flicked on the light.
The father of a hero
By BARBARA REHM
CHICAGO, May 7, 1973 (UPI) -- An old black man walked through the rain in a quiet park off Lake Michigan and stopped, as he always does, at the bronze monument to his son.
Oil embargo means dry gas pumps in Colorado
By PETER M. KELLY
DENVER, Aug. 6, 1973 (UPI) - Chuck Stiesmeyer looked at the three rows of automobiles lined up for gasoline at his Texaco service station Sunday and said the eight fuel pumps would be dry within the hour.
Buzzing creatures take shook-up fishermen aboard blue spaceship
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (UPI) -- Two shipyard workers say they were taken aboard a glowing blue spacecraft by buzzing creatures with silvery, wrinkled skin.
Humor: Yes, Virginia, there is an energy crisis!
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 1973 (UPI) - Here's another letter from that suspicious little brat named Virginia who is always pestering newspapermen with dubious questions.
Streaking runs its course
By O'NEIL HENDRICK, UPI Streaking Editor
The new collegiate fad of streaking has run its logical course, if it ever had one, in its infancy.
The Transformation of Patricia Hearst
By JACK V. FOX, United Press International
Feb 12, 1974: "Mom, dad, I'm okay...I'm not being starved or beaten or unnecessarily frightened...I know that Steve is okay...I heard that mom is really upset and that everyone is at home...I hope this puts you a little bit at ease...I just hope I can get back to everybody real soon."
Ashe knocks Conners off Wimbledon perch
WIMBLEDON, England (UPI) — Arthur Ashe turned the world's top-ranked star into just another tennis player Saturday to smother Jimmy Connors' power game and win his first Wimbledon singles title, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4.
3 Attack Victims Won't Testify in Unsolved Deaths
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SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Police have a suspect in 14 unsolved homosexual murders but are unable to charge him because three survivors of attacks are unwilling to testify, it was disclosed Friday.
The king is dead - and his subjects mourn
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 17, 1977 (UPI) - Restless crowds of grief-stricken fans jammed the sidewalk Wednesday in front of the mansion of Elvis Presley, the 42-year-old king of rock 'n' roll who collapsed and died Tuesday of heart failure. At one point, a crowd of more than 300 persons began overflowing into the driveway leading to the mansion. A motorcycle police officer drove from inside the wrought iron gates towards the crowd, weaving back and forth in the jumble of people to clear a path for vehicles to enter.
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