Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Generally, election winners were an eclectic group for whom age, sex or race seemed to be no barrier. Denying that she was a "little old lady in tennis shoes," retired Librarian Isabelle Cannon, 73, proved to be fast on her feet as she upset Jyles Coggins, 56, mayor of Raleigh, N.C. "How can you debate with someone who is old enough to be your mother?" complained Coggins. Said Cannon, who was backed by groups in favor of controlled growth for the city: "Raleigh is ready for a fresh new face...
...meticulous landscapes shows compassion as well as irony in the face of the familiar. A companion suite, The Changing City, shows the same process in an urban environment, from the calm, dignified arrangements of turn-of-the-century houses to the epoch of right-angle multiple housing and fast-food enterprises...
...scheduled to open next year in Atlantic City, N.J., and there is talk of legalizing them in Florida and possibly New York. Starting a casino, however, hardly gives investors a license to coin money, as the owners of some deficit-ridden Nevada operations have discovered: gambling is a fast-paced, cash-heavy business that, like any other, must be tightly run to turn a profit. How tightly, TIME Correspondent John Quirt learned by studying Harrah's, one of the oldest (it celebrated its 40th birthday Oct. 30) and most successful Nevada gaming concerns. His report...
...Interest is down from last year," Luke Dones '79, a member of the project, said yesterday. Dones said he had difficulty finding volunteers to man the tables where students signed up for the fast...
...Freshman Union and Quincy House had the largest number of fasting students, while Kirkland and Eliot Houses had the lowest, Gina Gonzales '79, one of the fast's organizers, said yesterday...