Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-Washington feelings in the U.S. presidential primaries, Italian parties for the first time signed up a host of non-political "personality" candidates. The Christian Democrats nominated Nuclear Physicist Luigi Broglio, respected Banker Gaetano Stammati and Auto Executive Umberto Agnelli. Agnelli, 41, is the younger brother and second in command to Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, Italy's leading industrialist. (Gianni had considered running as a centrist Republican Party candidate but bowed out instead after Umberto filed...
...touching figure throughout a court battle in Los Angeles. Stacy's arm and leg had been amputated after a drunken driver sideswiped his motorcycle in 1973, at the same time killing Stacy's passenger. Insisted his lawyer, Irving H. Green: "Stacy would have been able to command a million dollars a movie had his career been allowed to develop." Basing its decision on a 1953 California statute that persons who knowingly sell liquor to someone who is "obviously intoxicated" can be held liable for damages, the jury ordered the Beverly Hills bar where the driver had got drunk...
...barter proposal had been cleared by the U.S. departments of Defense, State and Treasury. The military equipment that would be bartered includes General Dynamics' F-16 fighters, McDonnell Douglas/Northrop's F-18s and Boeing's electronics-jammed Airborne Warning and Control System (a sort of flying command center...
Katherine Fanning's Anchorage Daily News has a circulation of 15,500, a staff of 20 (including the receptionist) and an editor-publisher who, until her husband died in 1971 and left her in command, could have rated herself as little more than a cub reporter. The morning daily does not have its own presses, rarely runs more than 20 pages an issue and has long been overshadowed by its afternoon competitor, the Times (circ. 45,000). Yet last week Fanning's tiny paper edged out some of the nation's leading dailies to win journalism...
Dave Bixby, number two man for the varsity, caught a bad crab around the 800 meter mark, which allowed Penn to creep back to within a half seat of the Crimson. But the boat regrouped, and quickly retook command of the situation. Twenty strokes later, Bixby's oar decided that once was not enough, as it dove back in the traditionally horrendous Severn for a second helping--this time, a boat-stopping crab...