Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Provoked by such incidents, and the prominent display they got almost nightly on TV news last week, more than 40 communities in the U.S. banned Halloween trick-or-treating. "I feel like the Grinch-you know, the one who stole Christmas," said Councilman Paul Sharp of Hammond, La., which enacted a ban. Rhode Island Governor J. Joseph Garrahy urged parents to substitute Halloween house parties for trick-or-treating, and New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean signed a law mandating six months in jail for anyone convicted of contaminating Halloween candy, even if no one was harmed...
Since being at Harvard, Greenidge says he has been impressed with the out-standing quality of women's athletics and the enthusiasm students display toward all sports. "At RPI it was hockey all year 'round. Here people are serious about everything," he says...
...with them. There is no point in having American Secretaries of Defense running over there all the time, putting on their hard hats and huffing and puffing. [Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown visited China in 1980, and Caspar Weinberger wants to go.] For one thing, that kind of display doesn't scare the Russians; it just makes them more conspiratorial. The Russians know the Chinese are light-years behind them militarily, and the U.S. couldn't do much to change that even if it wanted...
Elegant examples of both past and present Aegean treasures were on display at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week. But only fleetingly. One treasure, Actress Melina Mercouri, 57 (Never on Sunday), had to return home after paying a social call on "The Search for Alexander," the traveling collection of 180 works of art from the time of Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.). The artifacts will follow her home when the show ends its seven-city, three-year tour next July. But Mercouri, Greece's Minister of Culture, has not had much luck getting...
During last season's final push for the Ivy League hockey title, senior Scott McCabe and sophomore Liz Gill saw an unusual display from the Harvard fans. The crowds cheered, sang, threw chickens and generally exhibited organized enthusiasm seldom seen in recent memory...