Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stops at Minneapolis, Great Falls and Missoula, Mont., Portland, Spokane and finally Seattle. What happened en route rivaled Alfred Hitchcock's more baroque fantasies. In the most elaborate skyjacking ploy in the bizarre history of air piracy, an inconspicuous middle-aged traveler identified on the manifest as "D.B. Cooper" extorted $200,000 from the airline, and apparently foiled any plan of capture by parachuting to safety over southwest Washington State...
Died. Dame Gladys Cooper, 82, exemplar of British dignity on stage and screen; of pneumonia; in Henley-on-Thames, England. A beautiful chorine who became World War I's foremost pinup girl by shamelessly exposing her ankles, Dame Gladys early turned to the legitimate stage. After achieving stardom in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray in 1922, she managed London's Playhouse Theater. Planning to spend three weeks in Hollywood making Alfred Hitchcock's 1940 melodrama Rebecca, she remained for nearly three decades, playing in such movie classics as Now, Voyager and Separate Tables. Then she became the matriarch...
...taken out of context. We particularly regret that the signers of the letter have used their authority as linguists to deride a social comment without discussing the specific point involved. Sarah E. Thompson Donna Jo Furrow Janet Fodor Dwight Bolinger Paole Valesio M.D. Lee Linda Shumaker Jonathan Cooper...
...tally of all the Senators. Minority Whip Robert Griffin of Michigan counted 20 Republicans who would be present and voting for the bill and he assumed that enough Democrats would go along to make passage certain. The Democrats did not even bother to tally their own. Senator John Sherman Cooper was flying to Kentucky to campaign for the Republican gubernatorial candidate. Carl Curtis of Nebraska was in his home state attending political meetings. Many other Senators had left Washington sure that their absence would make no difference. As it happened, they were right for the wrong reason: the opposition turned...
...experiment, of course, could easily sour, but Mobile's white leaders have quietly discouraged Governor Wallace from trying to upset the plan. Says black Lawyer A.J. Cooper Jr.: "No doubt it is an imposition on many parents, black and white, to have their kids bused. But the question is, are we willing to accept impositions to make our Constitution work? I don't think the founding fathers ever meant that democracy was going to be easy...