Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painter set up an easel on a Fifth Avenue sidewalk and began to work on a picture, sighting along his brush from time to time, looking at the fuming steel flow of jammed traffic that inched downtown. When spectators walked up for a look at his canvas, they found that he was placidly painting a quiet meadow with a stream running through it. The man admirably embodied certain crucial New York survival traits: exhibitionism, humor, and possible derangement...
...town of Saint-Raphael overloaded, effluent poured into the sea, yet authorities were unable to keep campers out of the water despite an overpowering stench. Tourist officials claim that most beaches are safe for bathing, but the French monthly magazine Science et vie reports that health officials have found 649 cases of "negligible" pollution, 361 cases of the "medium" variety and 23 cases of "strong pollution" at 138 Mediterranean locations, among them Antibes, Cannes and Nice...
...threatened to launch-from dropping in. "If the people ask us to leave," says Denard, "we'll be gone the next morning. If they don't ask us to leave, it will take 100,000 Cubans to throw us out." It appears that the old mercenary has found a home-until the next man with a dog comes along...
...strike against the Times, News and Post (combined circulation: 3.4 million) and was backed up by all but one of its nine fellow craft unions (the typesetters, the only holdouts, have a no-strike contract) as well as by the Newspaper Guild, which represents editorial employees. New Yorkers found their familiar newsstands either closed or peddling increased press runs of the Wall Street Journal and suburban papers; uninformed shoppers could not take advantage of the summer close-out sales; television and radio stations geared up for increased news programming...
...pronounced Bah-jee-o) has moved steadily upward in a flawlessly loyal career. As signed first to Vienna, he soon became a Latin American virtuoso, serving in six countries and learning, as he went, superb Spanish, Portuguese, English and half a dozen local dialects. The pastoral job Pope Paul found for him in 1969 would have discouraged a lesser man: the Archbishopric of Cagliari in Sardinia. Baggio gamely traveled the island in a simple black cassock, exhorting fraternal love in place of the endemic vendetta, cajoling landlords and industrialists to provide better conditions for workers. As prefect of the Congregation...