Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson linksters were well up on the leaderboard with three rounds in the 70s but still finished fifth in the tourney and consequently will be conspicuously absent from the ECAC tournament next week at the Essex Country Club. Only the top two schools qualify and yesterday Vermont finished first with Dartmouth and darkhorse MIT tying for second...
...Jackie Onassis in the Manhattan publishing-house office she once occupied, the Shah of Iran in his fortified Caspian Sea retreat, Brooke Shields in a skimpy leotard, Henry Fonda in a Boy Scout uniform, Pope John Paul I in the Vatican, and hot-air balloons over Iowa. Conspicuously absent are the kind of late-breaking news photos that once filled the opening pages of LIFE. The new monthly will go to press two weeks before it is distributed...
...absent-minded way the United States may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly bring the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...issue which had attracted the attention of real Clamshell Alliance demonstrators outside the Sheraton, as opposed to Proposition 13's absent masses, was nuclear power. However, it was given short shrift inside the conference hall. When I asked Milliken if support for nuclear power plants was inconsistent with his concern for toxic chemicals and the environment, he lowered his voice a little and said, "Well we are going to have to go ahead in a very cautious way, but wind and solar energy are not going to solve this country's energy problems," adding that "environmental risks and economic advantages...
...schedule with the strong corps of returnees. That group includes the "four freshmen"--that's not a new 50s nostalgia rock group--who last year gave a well needed shot in the arm to the program, bringing some flashy skills and a willingness to learn which had been absent...