Word: del
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group urged the OAS to "impress upon the Chilean government the importance of their respect for the rights of all individual citizens." They cited the reported imprisonment of Enrique Kirberg, rector of the Universidad Tecnica del Estado, as an example of Chile's violation of these rights...
...reunion was going fine until Connors had a sudden onset of chest pains and thought he had suffered a heart attack. Jimmy checked into Marina Mercy Hospital in Marina del Ray, arriving in a disguise to avoid autograph hunters. Some Washington, D.C., tennis fans who were expecting to see him play in a tournament there charged that he was faking. After all, Connors had pulled out of other tournaments this year with vague ills. Jimmy did not end the skepticism when he passed the time waiting for test results (which proved negative) by practicing tennis and repeatedly pratfalling...
...legal or illegal. So far, only one grand jury is known to have been empaneled, in Jacksonville. It is looking into alleged overcharges to the Jacksonville Electric Authority, which received fuel during the crisis from a Coral Gables company partially owned by a Houston conglomerate and the Corporacidn Venezolana del Petroleo, the state-owned oil and gas company in Venezuela. Company officials have denied any wrongdoing...
...fireman in Girard, Ohio: "They're going down the drain without a fight, and we're still talking of sending them hundreds of millions of dollars? I don't understand it. We've got people starving in West Virginia." Echoed a construction worker in Wilmington, Del.: "All that money that Ford wants to waste in Indochina could do a helluva lot more good in the U.S.A...
...that has become lost in synthetic giddiness. There are 16 Cole Porter tunes, so many that the movie seems to be strung together from a series of song cues. What passes for plot concerns the romances of two couples-Burt Reynolds and, inevitably, Cybill Shepherd; Madeline Kahn and Duilio Del Prete -as they sing and dance through some smoggy dream of the '30s. The couples do not sing very well, though, and in dancing resemble a troop of hikers trying to extinguish a campfire...