Word: formers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stone and Adriana Holy finished one-two in both the one and three meter diving events, with Stone amassing 242.95 points in the former and 227.00 points in the latter...
Walter Guevara, the former President of Bolivia, last night blamed the increasing militarism of his countrymen for the coup that ousted him from power in November...
...indeed a strange episode when the Shah of Iran, former head of one of the world's most brutal and repressive states, managed to land in the U.S. as a "private citizen." For several days leading newspapers published first page stories detailing the treatment of the Shah's cancer, creating a mood conducive to accepting him on humanitarian grounds. Only a few months earlier the press and the U.S. Senate were raising hell about the execution of the Shah's military chiefs and ex-cronies in Iran. They complained bitterly about the violation of due process of law. But they...
Instead of sending only career diplomats overseas, the former Celtic coach recommended hiring former athletes or "guys who just can't quite make the pros." And instead of supplying countries with unneeded hardware, he added, the government should ship basketballs("good American ones, the kind with the seams") and sneakers...
Albert Einstein. The Human Side. By Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman. (Princeton, $8.95): If all secretaries wrote books the shelves would be full of apalling revelations. But Einstein's secretary--with the aid of a former colleague--has only commendable and tender words for America's most apotheosized scientist. Your Grandmother or great-uncle Larry will love...