Word: contact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next night, McLemore got his captors to take him to a phone. He called Everitt and said that the whole trip had actually been a bungled dope run planned in advance through a contact in Houston. The pilots were to pick up 1,500 Ibs. of marijuana and fly it to Lafayette, La. McLemore said he had written a bad check for $100,000 to his captors, and "this is probably the only thing keeping me alive." He indicated he would try to escape. "Just keep your fingers crossed and I'm going...
Chafin said yesterday he selected the two women because they "were among the best qualified of the total complement of candidates." Chafin added there is a need for woman-to-woman contact in the University community and that the department will be able to set up s Sensitive Crime Unit to deal with sexually related criminal offenses...
...work of French Sculptor Antoine Poncet, a disciple of Jean Arp. Poncet hoped that Ubatuba would bring "a fresh and pure breath" to a city he calls "New York-the Tough." He was pleased that Gallery Owner Jacob Weintraub had put the sculpture outdoors "because there it comes in contact with the people." New Yorkers were pleased too: they often stopped to run their hands over the sculpture's smooth, glossy surface. But Poncet did not reckon just how tough New York could be: one night last week unseen vandals pulled Ubatuba from its pedestal, smashing it into bits...
...arena and exert what influence we can to bring about change for the better. Bok even suggests that disassociation constitutes an abdication of our moral responsibility to stay in there and fight But we all know that we are too pure and holy to contaminate ourselves by such contact with the seamier manifestations of human nature. We are above all that...
...think that we can have more influence against apartheid by keeping open the channels of economic contact with South Africa" and by making decisions to lend money on a case-by-case basis, the company said in a statement responding to Yale's decision...