Word: 30th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...30th book, .Singer corrects the citation. His fantasy is definitively inexhaustible. As for the microchaos, it is neither micro nor chaotic. It is as large and mysteriously ordered as the universe he ponders or the Polish village and villagers he knows by heart. No one familiar with Singer could fail to recognize his songs. Here again are the doomed Jews of the shtetl and the voluble retirees of Miami's gelt coast, the pious simpletons and the demons who can possess even the innocent spirit...
Senior Reed Eichner scrambled for the last couple of miles to take 15th for the Crimson, while teammate Buck Logan garnered 20th. Turning in his strongest performance of the season, captain Thad McNulty took 25th and Noel Scidmore rounded out the Harvard scoring with a 30th-place finish...
...need for maintaining Western unity was underscored after Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev delivered a speech in East Berlin marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of East Germany. Brezhnev warned that the new NATO weapons would "radically alter the strategic situation on the Continent," and "poison the international atmosphere." He singled out West Germany for a special threat: "It would not be difficult to imagine what consequences would await her if this weaponry was ever put to use by its owners...
Propped up by two solicitous aides, Ye Jianying, 81, the venerable chairman of the National People's Congress, tottered up to the rostrum last week to deliver the keynote speech for China's 30th anniversary celebration. As it was meant to, his appearance before an audience of 11,000 packed into Peking's Great Hall of the People emotionally evoked the most sacred day in the calendar of Chinese Communism: Oct. 1, 1949, when Ye and other victorious revolutionary leaders stood at the side of Mao Tse-tung as the Great Helmsman proclaimed the People...
...keeping with the business-like mood of Deng's modernization effort, the 30th celebration was strikingly subdued. Gone were the lavish fireworks displays and parades of earlier anniversaries. Still, the New China News Agency had promised that Peking would be given "a new look, with many billboards freshly painted." As it turned out, this meant that some Mao quotations were painted over and replaced with road safety signs and exhortations to strive for modernization. Peking's 7.5 million population salvaged some holiday spirit from the capital's markets, which were specially stockpiled with 1 million chickens...