Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scoones was not even as lucky as the fishermen. A week into the hunt, the cable to his camera snagged and broke, the equipment was lost, and his frustrated TV crew promptly returned to England. Only a few days later a volcano erupted on Great Comoro. With lava flowing toward the sea, frantic natives commandeered Scoones' boat as an emergency vessel...
...that debate did little to resolve the issues at hand, which was not surprising, since the conflict between free speech and perceived pornography is one of the great civil libertarian conundrums of our time. Those in the skin trade take full advantage of the public confusion, Chan among them. Even as the Crimson debated, Chan placed an ad in the Boston Globe and was himself profiled in the paper's Living section. "I got censored. I felt very sad about that," he told the Globe ingenuously. "I never thought it would happen here at Harvard, where presumably people think...
...year ago. The consumer buying spree, the inflationary rises in the price of energy, the gloomy prospects of higher import costs and pressure on the balance of payments−all these will move Federal Reserve Board to keep credit tight and interest rates high. Thus the nation will need great luck to avoid recession amid inflation...
England's Elizabeth II last week was not only Queen of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and assorted realms and territories, she was also His Royal Highness−honorary gentleman. Proclaiming her such was the Saudi Arabian way of solving a dilemma: women are strictly second-class citizens in one of the world's most conservative monarchies, yet great courtesy was due the first British monarch to visit their petro-peninsula. The Queen reciprocated by tailoring her trip to local custom. Royal Dressmaker Sir Norman Hartnell whipped up frocks with longer sleeves and hemlines. Hatmaker Frederick Fox tacked scarves...
Donald Seibert, J.C. Penney chairman, after viewing the Treasures of Tutankhamun: "The Egyptians found a great way to get rid of their inventory. They buried it, but, even then, I noticed that they had some shrinkage...