Word: autumnal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were three big games that autumn: home against Dartmouth, at Brown on T.V., and at Yale for the title on the season's final day. Bob McDermott had three big games that fall, and it so happened they were against Dartmouth, Brown and Yale...
...press release has been circulated announcing that California Governor Jerry Brown will get the "Benedict Arnold Citizenship Award" for appointing ex-antiwar Activist Tom Hayden to the state's new solar energy panel. And now Tony Bennett is closing the show with a sad, silky version of Autumn Leaves. Off to the side, watching them, one begins to sense in some measure what they have endured, and still endure. They perfectly illustrate some lines from John le Carre's The Looking Glass War: "Nothing ever bridged the gulf between the man who went and the man who stayed...
...There they had looked at, among other things, Swedish-built submarines and the Saab-Scania supersonic Viggen fighter jet. This week the delegation heads southward to see what Italian manufacturers offer in the way of land, air and sea weaponry. A similar delegation of Chinese experts visited France last autumn to inspect materiel there...
...That would be illegal, but the Postal Service is so worried that it has drawn up crisis plans to have important mail such as Social Security checks sorted and delivered by the military, including the ROTC. There is also a somewhat remote possibility of a railway strike early this autumn if a new contract cannot be achieved by the time the federal mediation period expires...
...Premier René Lévesque of Quebec, who wants independence for his predominantly French-speaking province. Trudeau hopes that the constitutional changes will help take the wind out of separatist sails in Quebec-and incidentally, perhaps, launch his bid for a fourth term as Prime Minister, now an autumn possibility...