Word: 78th
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Nitze, who will celebrate his 78th birthday eight days after the talks with Gromyko conclude, adds stature to the American negotiating team. He is by far the most experienced U.S. bargainer with the Soviets, and in Washington has won the respect of both hardliners and moderates on arms control. A longtime advocate of American military strength, he also has been, in his own eyes at least, a consistent proponent of equitable agreement with the U.S.S.R. That stand led him to play a major role both in negotiating the SALT I treaty and in organizing opposition to the unratified SALT...
...game neared its end, Harvard's hopes became more and more faint. Columbia dealt the death blow to the Crimson in the 78th minute with the most beautiful goal of the game. McCarthy, taking a free kick on the left side about 23 yards from goal, pushed the ball over to Gayle, who bent a Brazilian-style volley into the path of an onrushing Skeene near the right corner of the goal. He finished the triangle by heading over Ginsburg into the left side of the goal...
...last marathon runner we watched emerge from the tunnel into the Coliseum was a Haitian with a lovely, euphonious name, Dieudonne Lamothe. He ran his last lap stolidly, engulfed by applause, and when he crossed the finish line he was the 78th runner to do so. The orange Halloween-hat traffic cones used to guide Lamothe and his swifter brethren onto the track from the tunnel were picked up; the tunnel was blocked off so that such scheduled rituals as the awarding of the final medals, the reintroduction of the athletes, the arrival of a spaceship, the performance...
...assumed that a first-term President will run for reelection, even if his prospects seem as dubious as those of Jimmy Carter-or, for that matter, as hopeless as those of Herbert Hoover. But Reagan would be the first President to be less than three weeks shy of his 78th birthday when he finished a second term. And he does not feel the driving personal ambition that would make re-election a psychological necessity...
...impetus for all this activity is the centennial of Joyce's birth, on Feb. 2, 1882. This year also marks the 78th anniversary of Bloomsday, June 16, 1904, the day commemorated in Ulysses and a sacred date on the calendar of all Joyceans. Some 550 scholars assembled then for the eighth international James Joyce symposium. The President of Ireland, Patrick Hillery, and the mayor of Dublin, Alexis Fitzgerald, were on hand for official ceremonies; scores of people in turn-of-the-century costumes took to the streets to act out scenes from the novel. One who declined an invitation...