Word: 45th
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...Without a Warsaw Pact threat, NATO may gradually dissolve. Likewise, the denuclearization of Europe could become nearly total. Appealing as this may sound, it could endanger the armed balance that has kept the peace since 1945. The cold war was also a cold peace: now in its 45th year, the era that historian John Lewis Gaddis calls the "long peace" is surpassing the stable stretches imposed by Metternich and then Bismarck in the 19th century. One reason is that nuclear weapons made localized wars and territorial disputes too dangerous to allow. They also made a direct confrontation between East...
...Yale undergraduate, George Bush headed the local drive for the United Negro College Fund, a consortium that then represented 32 private black schools. Last week, as Bush delivered the keynote speech at the fund's 45th- anniversary dinner in Manhattan, and it was clear his ardor had not waned. "Then as now," said the President, "the U.N.C.F.") insists that excellence become a way of life...
...Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (who died in late 1988), The Traveling Wilburys, won praise. -- ARETHA FRANKLIN, the "queen of soul," won two Grammy Awards in 1988. -- MARVIN GAYE, rhythm- and-blues singer, was shot and killed by his father in an argument in 1984, on his 45th birthday. -- S.I. HAYAKAWA, former president of San Francisco State University, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1982. He is honorary chairman of U.S. English, which seeks to make English the official language of the U.S. -- ABBIE HOFFMAN, cofounder of the Youth International Party, is an environmental activist, antidrug advocate...
Other Harvard entrants following Gompers were Mike Curtis (36th place, 25:47.1), John Lewis (44th, 25:57.8), Brian Cann (45th, 25:59.4), and Mike Spence (64th...
Katie Toner (18:35.1) and Toby Warden (18:41.3) led all women with 21st and 22nd place finishes, respectively. The freshmen trio of Lise Vansen (19:18.5), Michelle Sang (19:26.3), and Tina Lount (19:27.5) followed with 45th, 49th, and 50th place finishes, respectively...