Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...room would one day become so popular that according to his pressagent, "Dick Cavett can no longer go to the theater because he's mobbed." My goodness, I've never been mobbed; neither has Johnny Carson or Merv Griffin. I gather the way to get yourself mobbed is to hire a pressagent...
...children appear on a television commercial for a laundry detergent. The Good Samaritan, a large hospital in Los Angeles, closes down its maternity ward as the number of abortions in the area approaches the number of live births. Underused elementary schools are turned into bakeries or motels. Young people gather in Manhattan's Central Park to honor the "nonparents of the year" and celebrate their childlessness in a "non-fertility rite" complete with dancing...
Sullivan, who also serves as assistant clerk of courts in Middlesex County, has even avoided the work in the court house. Workers there said recently that Sullivan only drops by occasionally to say hello to friends and to gather election support...
...committee has studied reports prepared by similar groups at Yale and Princeton, and has attempted to gather any other outside information available. However, committee members say they are reluctant to rely upon statistics and perceptions prepared by sources outside the University. "I don't know whether it's a sort of elitism or what," one member said, "but we pretty much want to work this out on our own." Alberta B. Arthurs, dean of Radcliffe admissions, says that the committee members are "all very much aware and proud of the fact that Harvard is unique," and that the emphasis...
...teams or zigzagging between dozens of tournaments, the once orderly sport has become a blurred kaleidoscope of perpetual motion. Twice a year though, tennis addicts get a reprieve: in July at Wimbledon and this month at Forest Hills, where the world's best players, male and female, gather to battle for top honors. As the U.S. Open got under way last week, it captured the expansive look of Tennis 1974. Items...