Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found to overturn the basic conclusion of the Warren Commission 15 years ago: that Oswald had acted alone. Discussing the House report, Michigan Congressman Harold Sawyer, a dissenting member of the committee, called it "supposition upon supposition upon supposition." A former prosecutor, Sawyer was asked what he would have done in his old job if someone had laid the report in his lap. Said he: "I'd have put it in the circular file. There would be no way to prosecute...
...guarantee the conference's success, there was a prior agreement that it would concentrate on humanitarian solutions and avoid, as much as possible, political recriminations. This was done primarily to ensure the presence of Viet Nam, whose policies of brutal repression and wholesale expulsions have been responsible for the flood of refugees. Arriving in Geneva, Viet Nam's unctuous Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien pledged his country's "full cooperation" at the conference, provided that "our national sovereignty will be respected and financial help extended...
...fleets" or clubs in the U.S. and Canada that hold informal regattas. "The sport is developing very much like skiing," says Dick Lamb, president of the International Windsurfer Class Association. "You have a highly competitive elite at the top, yet it's a sport simple enough to be done by anyone wherever there's a body of water...
...great relief to students like Gary Berrien, caught in an awkward transitional period. In Tampa, after the decision was announced, Ezell Berrien, who testified in the case, said: "We're very happy about the ruling. I'm not against testing. I just think it should be done fairly...
Arikha is careful to impose these on his work. Each picture must be done in a day; there are no preliminary studies and, especially, no work from photographs, since photography and painting generalize in different ways. His object, brilliantly realized in some parts of his small and sharply edited output, is to make sight and formal deliberation fuse. The conjunctions within Arikha's work, its breadth of language and depth of feeling set off against its insecurity and self-questioning, make it unlike any thing done by an American figurative painter since Edward Hopper. So does its intelligence. Nothing...