Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, Vastola's colleagues could not follow his lead. The sabre team, in particular, had trouble, taking but three of its nine fights. Mike Bierer and Rob Homer, usually two of the Crimson's most dependable fencers, each triumphed in but one of their three bouts. Their successive third-round defeats, after which Harvard trailed 8-12, left the Crimson with what turned out to be an impossible comeback fight...
...Jones exhorted his followers over a loudspeaker in July to write him letters analyzing their attitudes toward elitism, anarchy, capitalism, socialism and their feelings about sex, authority and death. More than 200 of the letters-including one written on a scrap of cardboard from a milk carton-were found last week in a box on the porch of his cabin at Jonestown. They offer moving insights into the adherents' obsessive loyalty to their leader, whom they addressed as "Dad, "and reveal minds bent upon self-abasement and sometimes self-destruction. The excerpts that follow use the spelling and punctuation...
...know I still follow you because you have the gift to protect me. I like to look strong but I know I'm weak...
...Thomas Eagleton named three Missourians, without any merit commission and without inviting applications, despite Carter's urging of an open process. Carter and the Senate Judiciary Committee are left in an awkward position: If the Administration does not accept Eagleton's nominees, will the Judiciary Committee follow senatorial courtesy and reject anyone that Carter nominates instead for the Missouri spots? Says Bell: "Well, we plan to have a talk with the Senator...
...promoted to the job of running all ITT European operations from a base in Brussels. By encouraging still more acquisitions and spurring the companies' internal growth, he doubled European sales during the next three years to $5 billion. He was a prime candidate to follow Geneen as head of ITT when Revson, who realized he was dying of cancer, started a search for a successor who could bring the company professional management...