Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Except for the shot put, where Northeastern landed the top two slots (as Huskie hurler Bob Otrando set an institutional record with a 56' 3 1/2" mark), Harvard fared well in the other field events. The Crimson grabbed first place in the pole vault, where Geoff Stiles elbowed his way into the top slot by equalling his personal best of 16' 0" and took first and second place inthe high jump with winners Dan Sullivan and Mike Young...
Evangelical visibility [Dec. 26] is due in part to the failure of the liberal establishment to do anything except follow the line of retreat, retrenchment and unconcern for the true Gospel. But the Evangelicals have not arrived. The movement has only reached a point where, if it does not assault and change the sources of power in America, it will decline. I refer to the mainline denominations, the liberal theological seminaries, the large secularized universities, the business world, the media and other powerful organizations that still go their old ways without repentance or significant alteration...
...Micronesian trust territory is made up of the Marshall, the Caroline and the Mariana islands, except for Guam (see map). Those islands were handed over to Japan by the League of Nations in 1919 and held until Japan's defeat in World War II. In 1947, the United Nations transferred them to U.S. stewardship under an agreement that will expire in 1981. Carter insists that a change of status be negotiated by then with the trust territory islands. His Administration is willing to consider a range of options, from free association with the U.S., to commonwealth status, to independence...
...silent men. In retaliation for his antigovernment editorials. Woods, 44, was "banned" for five years-which means that his movements were severely restricted, he was prohibited from returning to his job as editor of the East London Daily Dispatch and prevented from speaking with more than one person (except for family members) at a time. Government agents read his mail, bugged his home and phone, and kept him under general-if irregular -surveillance...
...will U.S. intervention buy anything except temporary relief...