Word: dens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chief nemesis of the Quakers when they unwaringly stepped into the bengals' den last week was 6 ft. 3 in. senior Tim van Blommesteyn. The forward-guard, who chalked up 14 points and preyed on clumsy Quaker ball-handling for eight steals, will be the key man in the Tiger attack when Harvard runs up against Princeton tomorrow night at Jadwin...
Betty Ford has turned the presidential bedroom into a family den. "I took all the art off the walls-there's enough of that around-and put up family pictures. I brought in Jerry's old blue leather lounge chair and his tobacco things." After dinner the President works there with Betty keeping him company in the other lounge chair...
...have been raised about patriotic, sexual and racial contents, the quarrel with the textbooks is very deeply a biblical issue. Fundamentalists all, the parents contend that the schoolbooks breed doubt of the Bible's literal truth. One contested passage compares the scriptural account of Daniel in the lion's den to the old tale of Androcles and the lion. Another suggests that the biblical story of the Tower of Babel is a myth explaining the origin of languages. "We object to books that ridicule a child's faith and treat biblical stories as fables," says Mrs. Alice Moore, a school...
Communist Gains. Heavy fighting also broke out in Military Region III, which consists of the eleven provinces surrounding Saigon. The town of Cu Chi, the rear headquarters of the 25th ARVN Division, was shelled. Communist mortar and artillery attacks in Tay Ninh province, especially around Nui Ba Den (Black Virgin Mountain), drove thousands of terrified refugees into already crowded Tay Ninh City. In Phuoc Tuy province, the Communists are attempting to gain control of several rubber plantations near the town of Long Thanh. Not far from there, they have organized the 301st Regiment of the so-called People...
...months, however, the Chelsea has also become an occasional hangout for a seedier brand of clientele -prostitutes, pimps and gamblers-and last week their high jinks snared some surprised Chelsea guests in an ugly rape-and-robbery incident. A third-floor room was serving as an all-night gambling den, with sex available as an added lure. At least 13 men and women, some of them registered guests, made their way to room 330 for the night's gambol. Around 7 a.m. Sunday, two men crashed the party at gunpoint. The pair made the partygoers strip and stole their...