Word: conn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HAVEN, Conn,--Yale University has hired a private detective agency to investigate whether dining hall workers are doing their work properly, spurring charges of harassment from the employees' union...
...nice people to read in their nice New Yorkers when they're through looking at the cartoons, inferring polite, understated meanings with a precise style and weightless control. But one knows his Alaska is an idealized one to read about in front of the fire on a cold Greenwich, Conn. night accompanied by 12-year-old bourbon. One knows his flawless Alaska book, while making lyrical, profound reading, misses much of Alaska, for few there give a damn about art, and fewer still have any particular use for politeness...
...other regional races, Rep. Christopher J. Dodd. (D-Conn.) defeated James L. Buckley in the Connecticut race for retiring Sen. Abraham D. Ribicoff's seat. In New Hampshire, incumbent Sen. John Durkin (D-N.H.) narrowly lost to conservative challenger Warren Rudman. The Vermont contest between Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Steward Ledbetter was too close to call...
MARRIED. Gerald Green, 58, novelist (The Last Angry Man) who wrote the script for the Emmy Award-winning 1978 television series Holocaust; and Interior Designer Marlene Eagle, 46; both for the second time; in New Canaan, Conn...
DIED. Edwin Way Teale, 81, naturalist, photographer and illustrator whose more than 30 books (The Lost Woods, North with the Spring, A Walk Through the Year) combined a scientist's eye for detail with a poet's love for language; in Norwich, Conn. Teale, who became interested in the out-of-doors during childhood visits to his grandfather's farm in Indiana, put two decades of effort and 100,000 miles of travel into a four-part series on the American seasons, which culminated in 1965 with the Pulitzer-prizewinning Wandering Through Winter. In it he wrote...