Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another country is joining the nuclear club...
...onetime Almelo adviser managed to carry home critical information about the gas centrifuge process needed to build such a factory, thereby enabling Pakistan to produce its own enriched uranium and, eventually, its own nuclear bomb. Pakistan will be a full-fledged member of the world's nuclear club within two to five years...
...activities in London. At the plush Cafe Royal banquet hall, representatives of the 22 member nations of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will gather for their 31st annual conference since the protective body's founding in 1946. Disdained in past years as a private whalers' club that supports the estimated $650 million industry by setting excessively liberal whale-kill quotas (this year's total was 20,102), the IWC, under its youthful new chairman, Thordur Asgeirsson, 37, could do much this year to change its image...
...crowd in the chandelier-hung room at Monaco's elegant Winter Sporting Club was certainly stellar, stippled with the rich (Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos, London Merchandising Millionaire Sir Charles Clore), the royal (Britain's Princess Alexandra) and the pop (ex-Beatle Ringo Starr). But the real stunners were the prices being paid for the glittering collection of French antique furniture and objets d'art that were on the block in what Sotheby Parke Bernet hoped would be the auction of the year...
...smile. Here's Lansing Lamont, who can dismiss the entire Sixties as "a media-orchestrated protest revel," call the return of protest to college campuses "ugly," and homosexuality a "problem to be surmounted." Lamont yearns for the days when Harvard and the "elite universities" were one big Final Club, enjoying "comfortable, if snobbish intimacy" and "benign" parietal rules, all blond hair and blue eyes and a sure guarantee of The Big Coin after graduation. About a third of the way through it hits you: you flip to the picture on the back jacket and, with his brow ridge and prognathous...