Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mounted the poinsettia- bedecked dais. Looking fit in a tailored Mao suit and vigorous beyond his 83 years, Deng beamed when the assembled 1,936 delegates gave him a standing ovation. Moments later, the other members of China's ruling gerontocracy limped into view. Leading them was Deng's fellow Politburo Standing Committee member, Conservative Chen Yun. Reportedly weakened by a stroke, Chen, 82, slowly toddled to his seat with the help of Zhao Ziyang, the Premier and acting party chief...
...earliest and most dogged defenders of Soviet Jews who had been refused permission to leave the country. Since 1970, except for five years of forced exile in Siberia, the television engineer served in Moscow as a key source -- sometimes the only source -- of information and advocacy on behalf of fellow Jews who wanted to emigrate. Last week, 17 years after Slepak and his wife Maria first applied for an exit visa, the two celebrated his 60th birthday in Jerusalem after a joyous arrival ceremony attended by 200 friends and admirers. Said Slepak: "I feel like I have been born again...
...gent on a park bench, then discovered that her new friend had Alzheimer's disease. Never mind that the series has stooped to making jokes about Sophia's own near senility; this case of Alzheimer's was so mild that the viewer hardly noticed it before the fellow was whisked offscreen...
...puzzle party was the brainchild of Jack Gray, a teaching fellow for VES 176, "Synergetics," a course on concepts in three-dimensional forms. "I heard through people on the West Coast that they had puzzle parties out there," says Gray. "So I thought, `Gee, wouldn't it be fun if we had one here...
Democrat Wallace Wilkinson easily won election as Kentucky's governor yesterday night while fellow Democrat Ray Mabus held a steady lead over Republican Jack Reed in Mississippi's statehouse race in off-year elections...