Word: baton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Neil G. Boothby, a spokesman for the event and a first year student at the Harvard Education School, said yesterday two batons will pass from runner to runner the length of the entire Eastern seaboard. One baton will travel south starting from Eastport, Maine, and the other will travel north from its starting point in Key West, Florida...
Inside each baton is a message, which the organizers of the run will deliver to each member of Congress at the end of the marathon. "Hunger persists not because we can't end it, but simply because we haven't," the message states...
William F. Stoats Baton Rouge...
While delegates to the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka enjoyed the best of everything, police in Livingstone, 200 miles to the southwest, were dispersing rioting crowds with tear gas and baton charges after lines of people waiting to buy soap and cooking oil got out of hand. In Lusaka itself, laundry soap and detergents were in short supply; toilet paper and cheese were unavailable; and milk chocolate had become a rare luxury. A Lusaka car rental firm is in danger of closing because it cannot get spare parts. The nation's inflation rate is running at about...
Nary a tympanist, trombonist nor tuba player in the San Diego Youth Symphony complained of not being able to follow the leader. For the guest conductor wielding the baton in three Strauss pieces was 6-ft. 11-in. Bill Walton, who is supposed to be playing roundball crosstown with San Diego's Clippers. Though Walton once tootled an earnest baritone horn in junior high school, his symphony appearance signaled no switch in careers. It simply meant that the Youth Symphony, raising funds for appearances in Europe later this year, recognized that Walton on the podium is as crowd-pleasing...