Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Bok, who has traditionally taken a keen interest in athletic matters, as well as the seven other Ivy League presidents chose not to attend the special convention, which drew college heads than ever before. Reardon and Fox both suggested that the convention's lack of bearing on Harvard prompted Bok to pass up the trip to New Orleans...
...President chose to follow a middle course: he reserved the right to engage in selective retaliation for any Soviet violations that might occur in the future. Moscow was prompt in denouncing the decision as "crawling out" of arms control. On the contrary, Reagan did not want to jeopardize the prospects for progress in the arms talks now under way in Geneva. The new negotiations, he concluded, are difficult enough without having the U.S. cast into doubt whether it intends to abide by the old agreements...
...convention followed up its election of Stanley by voting in Moore as first vice president of the S.B.C. It was a pointed gesture of compromise. Moore's principal rival was Incumbent Zig Ziglar, a layman who has spent the past year assailing "liberal" professors. The Dallas meeting also chose an extraordinary 22-member "peace committee" to hash out internecine differences...
...midweek, Israel arranged for Western newsmen to visit Marjayoun. The trip demonstrated not only that the Finns were in good condition, but that the Israelis, if they chose to do so, could have ended the incident quickly by putting pressure on the S.L.A. The situation took a comic turn late in the week when the eleven S.L.A. men, all of whom happened to be Shi'ites in an overwhelmingly Christian militia, told U.N. and Red Cross officials that they had no desire to return to the S.L.A. Confronted with this information, the S.L.A. commander, General Antoine Lahd, released the Finnish...
...models of polish and elegance: many of its paperbacks have dust jackets. The house was founded seven years ago by Real Estate Millionaire William Turnbull, 59, and Bookstore Owner and former Salesman Jack Shoemaker, 39. Turnbull, whose bulk and authority give him the aura of an editorial-cartoon plutocrat, chose the name because "if you know which way north is you can't get lost." The firm moved into a converted church and rectory in Berkeley in January 1980. The quarters were chosen, says the founder, "because we knew we would have to pray...