Word: avise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the barrage of bad publicity, the moneymaking machine of Chairman Harold Geneen recorded its most profitable year ever in 1972. Worldwide operating net rose 12%, to $477 million, exceeding ITT's average increase for the past dozen years. Last week ITT announced that in the first quarter of...
The raids were staged the day after Arab guerrillas had attacked Israeli targets in Cyprus (see following story). But the detailed planning had actually begun a month earlier, when two nondescript men and a dark-haired woman in her mid-30s visited Beirut on Western passports. Agents of Mossad, the...
Other members of the Eastern regional team don't seem to possess the equanimity of Steele and Carter in the agony of defeat, so they continue to invent new competitions. The first annual Avis memorial Mt. Hood-to-Mammoth Mt.-peak-to-shining-peak sprint was completed by rented cars...
Ironically, the Americans in 1973 looked and acted more like Europeans than the natives themselves. They did not argue about the past, squabble about sovereignty, or insist on defending national interests. They worked just as willingly in London as in Paris or Rome. They dressed alike, talked alike, used the...
On the field, ten large colored boxes were wheeled out and opened. About 300 balloons floated out from each one, hardly enough to break the record. Overhead, five smoke planes spelled out a message. "Go Dolphins-AVIS MIAMI"