Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Melissa A. Simmons Grand Island...
...everyone has lost. The Oahu grand jury has indicted both keepers for grand theft. The Kewalo Basin's director, Louis M. Herman, discounts the argument that the experiments were heinous: scientists were teaching the mammals to understand two-word sentences by means of computer beeps, and the dolphins were on the verge of learning three-word sentences. All that research, which cost close to $500,000, is down the drain. Worse, says Herman. Kea and Puka, untrained to feed themselves and unable to communicate with Pacific dolphins, are doubtless dead by now, the victims of starvation, sharks -and mindless...
...most of its 14-year existence, the Organization of African Unity has belied its grand title. Last week representatives from 48 of the OAU'S 49 member nations gathered for their four-day annual exercise in disharmony at a spanking-new conference center in Libreville, the sleepy seaside capital of Gabon. Shortly after Host President Albert-Bernard ("Omar") Bongo pleaded for "a summit at which we talk about what unites us, not what divides us," Chad accused Libya of seizing 45,000 sq. mi. of Chadian territory. Ethiopia charged that it was the victim of a "coordinated conspiracy...
...complacency intrudes. There is always an edge of instability, an apprehension, that returns them from the edge of the grand manner to a post-Freudian world. Their dignity is without rhetoric, and in that sense, very little in to day's painting compares with their achievement...
...than his share of run-ins with young criminals. Active in his Manhattan block association, he has intervened in numerous street crimes and has then gone to testify in court. He once helped pursue four youths who had jumped a man in Riverside Park, and was commended by the grand jury for his assistance. For the cover story, Warner spent a night in Harlem, accompanying New York Homicide Detective Jim Wilson on his beat...