Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if he wins his fourth election this week, Ian Smith's days in office may be numbered. The Rhodesian Prime Minister is under mounting pressure to give up his impossible dream of perpetuating white minority rule in Salisbury and to avert further bloodshed by acceding to a new U.S.-British peace proposal. The initiative is aimed at ending the five-year-old guerrilla war with nationalist forces and paving the way for black majority rule...
Especially striking was one family with four sisters, three of whom continued to live together in their childhood home and developed MS symptoms in 1974; the fourth sister, who had left home in 1971, remains free of any sign of the disease. The three homebodies had had close contact with the family dog, which suffered a severe brain disease in 1973. In ten other families, the mother and a child had the disease; in two, the father and a child; in 16, siblings were affected. Another coincidence involved a woman and her nephew, who lived together and both developed...
...children are now being taught Tourist Appreciation from the fourth grade on so that we natives may serve the visitor properly...
...says such special kinds of service are a "good thing" and foresees further rule relaxing to permit more efficient use of aircraft. This could result in cheaper rates between many destinations. At $236, Laker's fare already is the lowest transatlantic price in years. It is barely a fourth of the $830 minimum on the Queen Elizabeth 2. Indeed, it is $14 less than the $250 fare to fly between New York City and Denver...
...antihomosexual smears in next year's gubernatorial race. Even Felker was moved to protest from the sidelines. Said he: "It was not the kind of story I would have run. It's got nothing to do with Brown's ability as Governor." Says Kevin Starr, a fourth-generation Californian who was formerly Afew West's Northern California bureau chief "The mentality there seems to be 'The Ten Best Places to Get Pate When You're Marching with Cesar Chavez.' It's a strange combination of hyperchic and diffusedly leftist outrage...