Word: camps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Andrews' sophomore year marked the start of a steady but tenuous relationship with the varsity team. Andrews recalls. "I had a good camp, but I didn't think I had a prayer of making the varsity. I was content to play J.V. I guess Billy (Cleary) liked some of the things I did. I saw my name on the varsity roster the day he made the cuts. Jeez, I was high as a kite. I didn't touch the ground for a few days. It was the biggest surprise of my life. I ended up practicing with the varsity...
After the changes in Iran, it's now or never at Camp David...
...three men who sat down together at Camp David last week to negotiate an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty could be forgiven if they sensed the unseen presence of two other key figures at the deliberations. Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had not, of course, been invited to the talks. But their warm and well-photographed embrace in Tehran injected a note of urgency into Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's attempts to persuade Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egypt's Premier Moustafa Khalil to resolve...
...number of Manhattanites, from Wall Street lawyers to Broadway actors, simply got out their cross-country skis. So did Washingtonians, including Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell, enabling him to better explain his boss's tumble while learning the sport in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain National Park near Camp David...
...around London, the Clash sings straight to-and, in a sense, even speaks for-a generation of working-class kids not only cut off from the social mainstream but disaffected from the smug, cushy sounds of most contemporary pop. Stateside, the audience is different: students, trendy punks, artists and camp followers who cruise the punk periphery like tourists looking to score a season box for the apocalypse. No wonder that, after only the first American date, Joe Strummer was already sounding a little homesick...