Word: eights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raspberry Tart. Money is the main tie that binds U.N. Plaza residents. Considering the variety of their taste in decor, it seems to be the only tie. An exporter and his wife inhabit an eight-room West Tower penthouse whose walls are completely covered with dark green Vermont marble-giving their apartment a curiously tomblike atmosphere. Capote's apartment features a red-on-red dining room ("Like a hot raspberry tart," he says), and a prominently displayed pink china jar labeled "Opium," which was a housewarming gift from Jacqueline Kennedy...
...September president of the United Nations General Assembly; of cancer; in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Arenales served as legal counselor to the preparatory commission for UNESCO at age 24, was his country's permanent U.N. representative from 1955 to 1958, became Guatemala's Foreign Minister in 1966 after eight years of private law practice. When he was elected to the one-year presidency of the General Assembly, he said happily: "Guatemala can expect to preside about once in 100 years. For any man who holds the office, it is the peak of his diplomatic career...
...enemies. In 1963, the U.S. Senate Internal Security Sub committee investigated Pacifica for Communist infiltration. In 1964, the FCC dismissed a battery of complaints against Pacifica, including obscenity charges, after Berkeley's KPFA broadcast readings of poems by Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and a frank talk among eight homo sexuals about their problems and attitudes. The latest and most bitter com plaints were raised early this year after a militant Negro guest on Manhattan's WBAI read an anti-Semitic poem on the air; a black militant on another pro gram said that Hitler "didn't make enough...
Another reliever who may have earned a starting berth is Curt Tucker. The sophomore right-hander has shut out the opposition while limiting them to four hits in eight innings of relief pitching...
Preseason favorites fell by the wayside as Harvard, defending champion, lost its season opener to Penn 6-3, and Army, with eight of its starters returning, dropped one run decisions to Columbia 3-2, and Yale 1-0. The Crimson and the Cadets square off his Saturday at West Point in a crucial game for both squads...