Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baggage carts-admiringly described Wilson as "the P.T. Barnum of the auction business." Barnum, it will be remembered, held it true that "there is a sucker born every minute." To encourage five-figure bids, Wilson provided shuttle buses, disposable toothbrushes in rest rooms, free phones, simultaneous translation for a group of 25 Japanese, and $300,000 worth of frankly fabulous food catered by Los Angeles Restaurateur Robert J. Morris. The wine flowed like water, and so did the Perrier. "I think it's a goddam hoot," grinned a Texan, as a forklift truck rolled past bearing 1,200 live...
Speaking to a group of Soviet officials, Byrd cautioned that Moscow would "not contribute to a constructive discussion of the treaty" by expecting the Senate to be the White House's rubber stamp. Byrd was presumably alluding to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's statement that it would be the "end of negotiations" if the Senate amended SALT II. Byrd also advised the Soviets not to be offended by the rhetoric that will be sounded during the SALT debate. Said he: "The conscientious application of our constitutional process [should not be viewed] as a challenge to the Soviet...
...free legal services for people hit by falling pieces of Skylab" outside his Portsmouth office. But he saw a serious side to the event too. "People feel at the mercy of forces they cannot control," he explained. "Concern is mild, but it's there." An ad hoc Spokane, Wash., group called the Skylab Self-Defense Society hung a 15-ft. bull's-eye on the side of a downtown office building and suggested, "Make Spokane the target for Skylab's landing. If you give the Government a target to shoot at, it's bound to miss. That is our greatest...
...reading, a benefit for the recently-formed Support Group for Women's Safety, was the second in a series which began Friday night with an evening of black women's poetry at the Solomon Carter Fuller Center in the South End. The first reading, which also drew a standing-room-only crowd, featured the poetry of Lorde and local poets, Fahamisha Shariat Brown, Barbara Smith, Kate Rushin, and Dianna Christmas. Both evenings were supported by a number of community organizations concerned with making Boston safe for all women, including the Black Star Theatre, a Radcliffe-Harvard organization, which procured...
Hugh J. Beard Jr., the chief counsel for the plaintiffs, a group of former UNC law students suing UNC for reverse discrimination, said yesterday no one knows how the court will resolve the dispute...