Word: debuted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Public Debut. Japanese police believe the Kuala Lumpur attack was masterminded by Fusako Shigenobu, 29, the daughter of an insurance salesman, who is suspected of being the Red Army's leader. The Red Army, numbering about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left...
Betty Carter. Since her singing debut in 1946, Betty Carter has sung mostly in clubs, most of them in New Jersey. She built up a reputation as a "musicianly" and controlled singer, but, except for tour dates with Miles Davis in '59 and with Sonny Rollins in '64, has enjoyed only limited exposure. Thirty years ago she was "Betty Be-Bop" Carter. If your memory doesn't go back that far, you can see her at the Jazz Workshop through...
...court battle, though, will not delay Conrail's debut. The consolidated system will stretch westward from the Eastern seaboard through 15 states to St. Louis, hauling more than a third of Northeastern freight. During the next decade, Conrail would spend $1.84 billion in taxpayers' money and another $4.2 billion of its own earnings and funds from private investors for rehabilitation of the badly maintained and accident-prone system; it would lay 540 miles of new track a year and replace 3.4 million ties (in June, derailment of seven cars of an Erie-Lackawanna freight train in Scranton...
...That debut was typical of Jordan's career, played out in the melancholy minor league towns of Davenport, Iowa; Waycross, Ga.; and Palatka, Fla. The games, Jordan notes, seemed to have a will of their own, and the will was to lose. After a long series of catastrophic starts, Jordan finally admitted that his confidence, his control and his aspirations had come to nothing. "My career was no aesthetically well-made movie," he confesses, "rising action, climax, denouement. It was a box strewn with unnumbered slides...
...life in a rather unorthodox way--four different Hemingways, each representing the writer at a different stage of his life, meet each other during the course of the play, Advance word is that the play is no less than "great," and an excellent cast has been assembled for its debut. Opens at the Loeb Wednesday and continues through August 9, with performances at 8 Monday through Friday and at 5 and 9 on Saturdays. Tickets are $5.50 and $6.50, but Harvard-affiliated people can get them for a dollar less, and students are entitled to rush tickets...