Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author of the 25th Amendment, which provides for an orderly succession if the President is disabled or removed; Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller took office under its provisions. Bayh participated in drafting the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18. He was prominent in drawing up the 27th Equal Rights Amendment, which bars inequality of treatment on the basis of sex. The amendment has been ratified by 34 of the required 38 states...
...Blacksmith House is undoubtedly the best bakery in Cambridge (the Real Paper even said so last week). I go there to eat and little else, but through the 27th there's a fine exhibit there of photographs of the land, architecture and people of Iran. Their gallery is open...
Somber Mood. The ploy is certainly not lost on the enemy. Despite a perfect day of cloudless skies, beckoning beaches and flowering fields, Israel marked its 27th Independence Day last week in a distinctly somber mood. Anxious about any change in their relations with the U.S., the Israelis sent Foreign Minister Yigal Allon on an American fund-raising tour, which, not incidentally, will enable him to evaluate Washington's "reassessment" of its Middle East policy. Already, the Ford Administration has decided to hold back on sales of the Lance surface-to-surface missile and the F-15 fighter...
...Sandinista National Liberation Front. The Sandinistas have been struggling against the dictatorship since the middle 1960)s, but they captured the national imagination with a spectacular kidnapping at the end of last year. In an effort that has become known as "the event of December 27," or merely "the 27th," the Sandinistas broke into a diplomatic reception in Managua and took hostage eleven of Somoza's inner circle, leaving the dictator no choice but to comply with their demands, which were; freedom and guaranteed flight to Cuba for 15 imprisoned guerillas, $5 million in ransom, and perhaps most important...
...author, editor, columnist and diplomatic historian, he lectured statesmen and private citizens for 60 years. Although he relinquished his syndicated column Today and Tomorrow in 1967, he remained a close observer of world events. When he died last week at 85, he left the unfinished manuscript of his 27th book. Its working title, The Ungovernability of Man, reflected another, different 18th century strain in his character, an occasional Swiftian despair at the aberrations of the "minor Dark Age" into which he had been born...