Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bruce Kison, who relieved Walker, and Dave Giusti shut out the Orioles in the final eight innings while the Pirates struggled to convert their numerous hits into runs. They finally broke the tie in the seventh inning when rookie Milt May singled home Bob Robertson with the winning run. Kison was the winning pitcher while Eddie Watt, who replaced Pat Dobson in the seventh, lost the game for Baltimore...
Probably the Administration hopes to restore broken bonds with the universities: maybe it thinks it can convert some of its critics and please its supporters by allowing them a token role in policy formation. Some of these reports are undoubtedly bureaucratic waste destined to line file cabinets. The Columbia study in particular, though, may be used to help gain Congressional funds for a multilateral agency to prop up a Thieu-ish regime. Like the Smithies and Benoit reports, it is a minor scenario for the tragicomedy of Vietnamization...
...which has made Russell, at 43, the most provocative director in the business. Last week the Venice Film Festival canceled a public showing of The Devils in order to head off a threatened police raid, and L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, denounced Russell-a Roman Catholic convert-for his "perverted marriage of sex, violence and blasphemy." Says Russell: "They miss the point totally. The Devils is about the way church and state worked together to condemn an innocent man. These things actually happened. The critics don't like to recognize this, and they don't like...
...more affluent, particularly fancy quarters are available. At a cost ranging from $500 on up to $4,600, companies like Lance Industries of South Windsor, Conn., will convert an ordinary van into a rolling mansion. Included in the more expensive packages: frost-free refrigerators, air conditioning, screened windows, heavily padded bunks, elaborately contrived sinks and gas stoves-as well as deep pile carpeting and costly wall paneling...
...stove and lantern, and her boyfriend's motorcycle, which he rides ahead of the van on long trips. Other vans have kerosene lanterns, candles mounted on inner walls, and even potted plants. Charles Patton, 39, goes camping in a 1957 VW beetle that "some hippie kids" helped him convert into a plywood paneled home that sleeps two, has a portable sink and four stained-glass windows. Says John Shaw, 18, who has just completed a transcontinental trek in his converted '56 truck: "It's a nice home-and there aren't any cockroaches...