Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that a newspaper's primary function is to present the news. "News" is of course distinct from "truth," in that no reporter or editor can be totally objective; he or she can present only a personalized account, a "story" in the true sense of the word, about some event. Still, the good paper strives to be as objective as possible, realizing that its editorial integrity depends on its ability to stay dispassionate. The paper that abandons this course--the one that adopts a "please the reader" philosophy in relation to its news policy, instead of leaving...
...surely been voiced by many an expectant parent, and Gilbert John Brown, 38, a British truck driver, is no exception. His wife Lesley, 30, is scheduled to give birth shortly. All that seems commonplace. But the birth of the Browns' baby may well be the most sensational obstetrical event since the birth of the Dionne quintuplets in 1934. Reason: the child will be the world's first baby conceived in a test tube...
...from Moscow. But for the Kremlin, the world chess championship beginning in the Philippine mountain resort of Baguio City this week is a grudge match involving national pride and politics. Philippines President Marcos had spent a fortune providing a new 1,000-seat amphitheater and other facilities for the event. As newsmen and chess aficionados from all over began to gather, much of the early betting was not on who would win but on just how many of the Soviets accompanying Anatoly Karpov, 27, the slim, intense defending champion from Leningrad, were actually intelligence agents. The chief of the Russian...
Demographics indicate that the population of non-Russian ethnic groups is increasing three times faster than the Russian population, Keenan told a group of 95 people attending the Summer School Thursday Lecture Series event...
...chassis draped in a cowskin. It was to be wheeled into the pen, the deceived bull would mount it, and the results-as the Biennale catalogue noted, with the usual clarity of Italian art criticism-would touch "the central core of the present evolutionary-involutionary crisis." Finding the proposed event "degrading" (degrading, that is, to Pinco rather than art), one radical Italian journalist shot off a wire to the Italian equivalent of the A.S.P.C.A., demanding that the spectacle be stopped. It was, he said, "an exploitive example of coerced masturbation." The police came, and a compromise was finally reached...