Word: hards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...backed up for miles while drivers waited as long as three hours to get through customs. Many U.S. tourists were unwilling to put up with the delays, and many Mexicans, outraged at being searched "to the skin," joined a boycott against nearby U.S. cities. Officials in hard-hit San Diego were worried that without grass, kids would turn to hard drugs. In towns on the Mexican side, where trade was off 40% to 75%, businessmen were near panic. The gate evaporated at Tijuana's Agua Caliente race track, and occupancy rates at Ensenada resort hotels fell to a ridiculous...
...their pitching falters once more, the Mets will have to repeat the devastating demonstration of power they displayed during the Atlanta series. While the Met pitching staff was being roughed up by the hard-hitting Braves...
...Patriot for Me spans the years 1890 to 1913 in the officer corps of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire. Lieutenant Alfred Redl (Maximilian Schell) is a kind of self-made upstart in the imperial army, with such class handicaps as a railway-clerk father. By dint of hard work and undemonstrated brilliance, Redl rises to high military and social rank and becomes deputy chief of the army's espionage service. Sexually, he undergoes a kind of moral regress. A disinclination to make love to women awakens him to his own homosexuality. As an ever more active queer...
...press conference last week, an Abbott official declared that "cyclamate is safe for human consumption as presently used in the diet." Finch, too, had his doubts about the chick tests. "We ought to have more than two species before we indict an agent," he chided. "We can push too hard, too fast, and make statements that may or may not be true and create all kinds of problems...
...Pope rule with only the advice of his bishops, as Rome insists, or should he allow the bishops co-responsibility with him? The same issue was touched on last week at smaller meetings of 29 theologians who form the Pope's theological commission. The theologians came to no hard decision. They did agree, however, that as long as churchmen were "publicly cautious," they could pursue a pluralistic theology, or one that allows controversial views...