Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Frank Church. To some degree, their outrage might well be the product of local political calculations. Not only is Stone elected from a state that contains an estimated 500,000 Cuban emigres but Church represents a state that is traditionally highly conservative. In his bid next year for a fifth term, he faces a very determined, well-financed right-wing opposition, which is already barraging him on such special issues as abortion restrictions and gun control. Church is most noted for his foreign policy stands, however, and he appears particularly vulnerable because of his votes for the Panama Canal treaty...
...students and professors, pursuing the arts at Harvard will remain frustrating. "Sometimes I feel that if you're in the arts you shouldn't be at Harvard," says Malardi but she, and many others, stay with hopes for change. Meanwhile, the arts survive here, as well as an ungraded fifth course...
...among ten known ones): lapetus, whose puzzling bright side seems to be crusted with ice, and Mimas, a similar icy moon. One surprise: there was far more debris in the wide gap between Saturn's outermost rings than could be seen from earth, but no trace of a fifth ring beyond the four known ones. At week's end the probe swept through this outer region, coming within 21,000 km (13,000 miles) of Saturn's cloud tops in the first rendezvous with that distant planet...
...growing number of health-oriented restaurants that ignore or play down booze and beef. The price of a single martini has risen in some Manhattan restaurants to more than $3, an extortionate sum that is only slightly below the wholesale cost to an establishment of an entire fifth of vodka or gin. Clothes purchases are being postponed. The Claude Herrons of Atlanta took their annual two-week vacation at the seashore this summer, but Mrs. Herron has been staying clear of the stores. Says she: "I refuse to pay $30 for a blouse. They can keep...
...retired craftsmen who could make scores of wagons. From Denver, Cimino ordered a 19th century locomotive that had to be rerouted because it was too big for many tunnels. Then came the roundup of 80 wagon teams. Using fewer horses, says Cimino, "would have been like trying to show Fifth Avenue with only ten taxicabs...