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...observation deck, about 200 Spanish Communists, most of them young, strained to catch a glimpse of their legendary leader. Some waved red flags with the party initials and the hammer and sickle emblazoned in gold. If they had hoped for a chance to greet her, they were disappointed. La Pasionaria was quickly whisked away in a private car to the home of a friend in Madrid. By the time the crowd had run to the baggage claim area, she was gone, leaving the party militants with nothing to do but chant "Si, si, si, Dolores a Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: La Pasionaria: An Exile Ends | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...city. Stocky and short (5 ft. 4 in.), he came on as a swaggering, street-wise punk. Introduced to a federal agent one day at the Las Vegas airport, Spilotro looked him coldly in the eye, stuck out his forefinger and moved his thumb up and down like the hammer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...role limits her to a couple of disconsolate weeping sessions and some blank stares. But Jean-Louis Tritignant provides the needed complement to Montand as he relentlessly pursues the Truth in his capacity as the prosecutor who smells something fishy somewhere. Some viewers may find Costa-Gavras' sledge-hammer polemicizing a bit much, but he does, after all, have the right line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

Taking its first major action on the core project, the full Faculty voted to set up faculty committees to hammer out possible programs in five fairly conventional-sounding core areas...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: A Flexible First Step For the Core | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

Magdalenski is a strapping player who brings to the tee the tactics of an unruly hammer thrower. He birdied the 478-yard par five first hole both rounds with a drive and a wedge. Harvard Coach Bob Donovan said, "He's a fool who hits a wedge 170 yards or some ungodly number like that. That's prodigous length...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Eagles Upset Golfers in Greater Boston Tourney | 5/4/1977 | See Source »

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