Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...centered on the legality of the Israeli settlements. Two weeks ago, Vance not only declared that the U.S. considered the settlements illegal and an obstacle to peace but also added that they "should not exist." Al though his comments reflected longstanding U.S. policy, Vance's words were a bit blunter than usual, and they made Begin see red. Summoning reporters, the Premier read what was surely the toughest official Israeli blast at Washington since Golda Meir rejected the Rogers peace plan eight years ago. The statement expressed "regret and protest" about the Vance remark, insisted that the settlements were...
...bit too much for George Thommen, 82, a Swiss-born industrial consultant who pioneered the American biorhythm movement by importing the ideas of a small Germanic number-juggling cult after World War II. "I thought of it as a hobby, like a sailboat," says Thommen, author of the first American biorhythm book, Is This Your Day? "In one way I'm happy that it's taken hold-I'm for helping humanity. In another way I think the commercialization is a dirty trick...
...theory can put compatible policemen in squad cars, determine the patterns of arsonists and maybe even prevent birth defects. Another advantage to biorhythm is that it provides extra income for a swelling number of entrepreneurs. With an investment of about $4,000, says Thommen, anybody can rent a bit of computer time and sell 30? charts for $10. In the rush for profits, laments Thommen, some of the new biorhythm salesmen are turning out sloppy charts, a day or two off. Says he: "Every Tom, Dick and Harry is going into this. Many people have no conscience...
...Bermudabound Fortunates who are directly involved, and, apparently, a reasonable amount of fun for the annual audience of 14,000 as well. And someday, perhaps, somebody Big and Bored will decide that enough has been enough, and will let someone write something real and really funny, and a bit less unwieldy--HPT 230, perhaps. I'll come back then, no matter where I am, and review it; but you still won't have to listen to a word I say, since the review will be done completely with mirrors...
...playoff-striving, barely surviving Harvard hockey team got a bit of a break last night, as Colgate's surprise 3-3 tie with Providence kept the Crimson in an eighth place tie with the Friars in the ECAC Division One playoff home stretch...