Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loved this country where everyone greets passers-by and opens his door wide. Looking at America, every voyager has the eyes of Christopher Columbus." So wrote François Mitterrand about his first visit to the U.S., when he was a young politician in 1946. This week America's doors will open wide again for France's new President as he travels to Yorktown, Va., to join President Ronald Reagan in celebrating the bicentennial of the Franco-American military victory that ended the Revolutionary War. In addition, Mitterrand will spend five hours in meetings with Reagan before continuing...
Many of the spectators had originally gathered to watch the Columbus Day parade, which was on a parallel street; others had come specially to root for friends or relatives...
...Crimson booters celebrated Columbus Day in fine fashion, trouncing Boston University, 9-0, for their seventh consecutive victory of the season, under the sun yesterday afternoon at the Business School Field...
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...games, roommates and junior co-captains of respectively field hockey and swimming, MAUREEN FINN and MAUREEN GILDEA have agreed to bring as many members of their teams as possible to the other co-captain's home games....Joining some 6000 women in the Bonne Bell 10 Kilometer run on Columbus Day will be most members of the Princeton and Harvard women's swim teams. The race, which starts on the Boston Common and winds down to MIT and bakc into Boston, is about 6.2 miles, and annually features some of the country's top female road-racers, including local favorite...