Word: 51st
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is Martin Beckman, 54, "Montana's Fighting Redhead," who is campaigning on the novel notion that "everyone should pay a fair share of taxes." Hugh Bagley, 52, of Keyes, Calif., has called for the annexation of Mexico as the 51st state. To rein force the point, he has printed up some real-looking $51 bills...
...black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill," he said. "It's a great feeling." Gueye finished 51st...
...Cohen of the Tehiya Party, a coalition member, said the next logical step was to put Abraham Lincoln's picture on the shekel. Other members described the "dollarization" plan as a blow to Israel's sovereignty that would make the country in effect the U.S.'s 51st state. Within hours, Aridor offered his resignation...
Focus of U.S. theatrical attention last week was a great grey pylon which strikes the earth where Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Elevated fences off 50th and 51st Streets-the Radio City Music Hall of Rockefeller Center. Wags had already dubbed the locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week a monster variety bill twice daily...
...Tripoli gathering would confirm his installation as O.A.U. chairman for one year. But Gaddafi alienated a number of moderate African states by helping to engineer the recognition of the Polisario guerrilla movement, which opposes Morocco's 1976 annexation of the Western Sahara, as the O.A.U.'s 51st member. As a result, only 21 heads of state showed up, and Gaddafi did not get the quorum of 34 necessary to hold a summit. Last week he tried and failed again to be host at the meeting...