Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, South Africa is significantly different from the other brutally repressive regimes of the world. No other regime has built a system which denies basic political, civil and social rights to the vast majority of its people merely on the basis of skin color. Third, people in the United States have a special obligation to respond to those black leaders in South Africa who have risked jail, torture, or death to speak out against the regime's monstruously irrational and inhumane politics...
...printing plant, and a set of negatives is flown to each of our other seven printing plants throughout the U.S. and seven more scattered around the world. If the film packets leave Chicago late, special efforts must be made to overcome the delay. What's more, some four-color ad pages are printed in Chicago and then sent by truck to U.S. plants for binding in the final copies...
...Outwardly brusque but actually shy, Laguerre was a connoisseur of cigars, race horses, the St. Louis Cardinals and journalistic prose that met his own exacting, cant-free standards. He turned the struggling SPORTS ILLUSTRATED into a solid financial success by restyling its format, pioneering the use of extensive news color photography and developing a staff of diverse, talented writers. After serving longer than any other managing editor of a Time Inc. publication, Laguerre left SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1974; a year later he helped found Classic, the Magazine about Horses & Sport, and was its editor and publisher until he retired...
...long insisted that animals often act strangely before a quake. Scientists' traditional skepticism about these reports has begun to erode, partly as a result of the work of China's "barefoot seismologists." These field workers have used observations of every kind-including changes in the level, temperature, color and smell of well water, and even the behavior of pandas in zoos-to make successful predictions of impending temblors...
...might lapse into a severe depression. But within a few days, the zoo received more than 50 offers of free TVs, as well as a surveillance system to keep Willie B.'s TV from ever being stolen again. The first replacement set to arrive, a 19-in. color model, was immediately installed in Willie B.'s cage. So, this Sunday, like millions of other fans, Willie B. will surely be jumping up and down in front of his TV, watching the Super Bowl...