Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classmates who had gone to the earlier parties were no longer puzzled. But some 60 more had waited for the climactic boat ride to join in, so the inevitable protests of recognition -"Oh, I remember you!"-still rang out as the passengers mingled among tables and chairs arrayed on the Liberty Belle's three decks...
...hardly mentioned the protests in Western Europe and the U.S., news of them was beamed to millions in the Soviet Union by Radio Liberty and other Western short-wave stations. "The awful thing about the Stalin era was that people just disappeared, and nobody knew where they had gone, nobody mentioned them," said Turchin. "Now there is public reaction, and people understand what is happening. The struggle is worth the effort...
...best, Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler revved up for a different kind of contest: the Six Hours of Endurance race at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Making his professional track debut, Chandler, 50, drove his own Porsche Turbo 935. "I had done some amateur racing, but I had never gone toe to toe with the world's greatest drivers," says Chandler. "It was much more than I had bargained for." Even so, the press lord is now feeling like a king of the pit: "I guess I kind of scored one for the amateurs and for the old folks...
...longevity. As he reached toward 90, Willie was constantly lionized, and he just as constantly complained, "Why can't they let me die?" On one occasion he compared his life to a party. It was "very nice to start with, but has become rather noisy as time has gone on. And I'm not at all sorry to go home...
...arrive with any compelling mandate from nature. Its origins were whimsical enough. After the Croatians defeated the Turks in a battle during the 17th century, the victorious regiment was given a welcome in Paris; admiring Frenchmen copied the soldiers' flowing scarves-cravates. Over the centuries, the tie has gone through thousands of fitful and pointless variations: stocks, string ties and once during the 19th century, a crescent-shaped bowtie worn with a choker collar so high and stiff that the wearer could neither see to the side nor turn his head. This year, fashion designers have ordained that, along...