Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee unanimously agreed to send the resolution to the Senate floor without recommendation. This action made a bruising floor fight a virtual certainty, even if Majority Leader Byrd had done his head counting carefully. One doubter was Minority Leader Baker. Said he: "I think it's pretty close...
...stifling jury room, and the only smoker in the group started chainsmoking. "We thought about banning him," said Juror Marty Garisek, 33, a bakery deliveryman. That evening, Judge James Turner permitted them their one recreational outing from the Santa Ana Holiday Inn, where they were sequestered under close watch: they went to see the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind...
...Look what's over there!" he yelled, and in moments he and his lone crew member were scooping up 55 survivors. Because of their quick action, only three others drowned. Weather was probably a factor in the misplaced landing; visibility in the Pensacola, Fla., area was close to the required one-mile minimum, and three Eastern Airlines pilots diverted to Mobile, Ala., that evening...
...object of the camera's attention soon moves to a close-up of ecstatic neophytes screaming to their follow trainees that "I am here because I want to change." This presumed act of self-confession is greeted by a babel of resonating applause and general whooping reminiscent of the narcotics-induced pandemonium of a rock concert. But these people do not get off on junk or ganja, they get off on quaintly named exercises like psychocalisthenics, karma processing and catharsis for the Acceptance of Change. As we are assured by our guide on this sojurn into Aricaland, "The same general...
Following the close of the bulk of Harvard's spring sports schedule last weekend, six Crimson squads elected captains this week...