Word: ap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worried public officials vow to fight Proposition 13 in the courts if it is ap proved next week. They intend to challenge it on a wide variety of legal grounds, including its possible unconstitutionality. But in hopes of preventing passage, they have also launched a public relations blitz...
...Zaire," while Newsweek, slightly less hysterically racist, went with "Massacre in Zaire." White casualties were carefully tabulated and lamented, but the death toll for blacks--a much higher number--was not even mentioned for the first few days, then left casually at "several hundred." The caption on an AP photo in The New York Times was typical: underneath the picture of piled bodies, it said, "Bodies of a number of blacks and a European were found at this site...
...After reducing half of the city of Ben Tre to rubble in the counterattack to the Tet Offensive, what did one American officer say to an AP reporter...
...AP TOP TWENTY 1. Texas (8-0) 2. Alabama (8-1) 3. Oklahoma (8-1) 4. Ohio State (8-1) 5. Notre Dame (7-1) 6. Michigan (8-1) 8. Arkansas (7-1) 9. Penn State (8-1) 10. Pitt (7-1-1) 11. Texas A&M (6-1 12. Nebraska (7-2) 13. BYU (7-2) 14. USC (6-3) 15. Clemson (7-1-1) 16. Florida State (7-1) 17. Arizona State (7-1) 18. Texas Tech (6-2) 19. North Carolina (6-2) 20. Colgate...
Wearying Ebullience. As for Shaw - what are we to do with him? He ap pears to be a congenitally ebullient fel low, willing to do anything to perk up a dull scene. Here he plays the local expert on treasure hunting, full of unexplained but noisy eccentricities, which he cheerfully stresses in a variety of accents and many a broad gesture. He provides energy in what would otherwise be purely expository scenes, but he is rather hard on any scenery or actors who happen to get in his way. Over a long haul, he is also wearying - like a drunk...