Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stationed on the continent. In addition to the army-size units in Angola (20,000 troops) and Ethiopia (17,000 troops), there are contingents in Mozambique, the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Libya and Tanzania. A sprinkling of civilian technicians and medical specialists is also scattered in Algeria, Benin, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe...
...enough to melt lead-Venus has tenaciously resisted attempts to probe its secrets. As Earth and Venus move closer together this year, two American and two Russian space probes will again test the formidable Venusian defenses. Last week, after a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, the first U.S. ship was speeding toward a Dec. 4 rendezvous with Venus and the most extensive atmospheric and topographical survey ever made of that planet...
...American original who, as Sinatra says, "did it my way." This sense of independence is focused during the months before a retrospective of her work is to open in New York. It is being hung by a twerpy careerist named Frank Fusco, who moves into Maude's Cape Cod house to rummage through thousands of forgotten prints...
DIED. Josef Marais, 72, South African-born composer and folk singer who toured for decades with his wife Miranda; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. A violinist with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Marais collected the rhythmic calypso-style Afrikaner folk songs, which, as a sort of bushveld hillbilly, he was later to sing in the U.S. and Europe...
...winter he spends a short time in Antigua, and in the summer he takes a month or so on Cape Cod. The rest of the time is divided between his homes in Manhattan and Washington, where he works at being president of the National Gallery. He employs three pilots to fly his Gulfstream jet so that one will always be available. During the summer he will often swim at Cape Cod in the morning, fly to Saratoga to watch the races and have lunch, and be back on the Cape for another swim in the late afternoon. What nature...