Word: host
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris' elegant Hotel Ritz, the champagne flowed until the small hours. Beaming U.S. Air Force generals mingled with aircraft executives and diplomats. The party's host, General Dynamics Corp. of St. Louis, had every reason to splurge. After more than a year of knee-and-gouge competition, Belgium had decided to buy the company's F-16 fighter-interceptor instead of the French Dassault Mirage F1-M53 as a replacement for aging U.S. F-104 Starfighters. That clinched what everyone was calling "the arms deal of the century...
...Schedule? Currently, walkouts are threatening Canada's plans to serve as host for the 1976 Olympics, scheduled to be held in Montreal. Strikes and stoppages have so slowed construction of a new 70,000-seat stadium and other Olympic facilities as to raise a question of whether they can be ready in time. Last week, while the International Olympic Committee, meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, received assurances from Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau that the games would be held on schedule, construction workers in Quebec and at the Olympic construction site struck yet again, this time mainly to protest a blunt...
...host club responded with a three-goal burst only to see McCall and Andy Gellis bring Harvard within one at the close of the first quarter...
...Faces. Traditional watchmakers are not letting themselves be caught dozing; almost all are regearing for a solid-state bonanza. But inevitably, the technological change is bringing a host of new corporate faces into the watch industry, mostly as manufacturers of components. Among them: Motorola, RCA, Intel and National Semiconductor. The last two not only supply traditional watchmakers, but also have begun turning out finished products of their own. The newcomers are almost all from the computer and radio industries, where much of the solid-state technology originated...
...aging literary gents are discovered at wordplay in a womblike Edwardian salon. John Gielgud, the social-climbing guest, is a failed poet and garrulous pub bore. Host Ralph Richardson is a successful but dipsomaniacal belletrist blimp who keeps two menacing servants to guard against just such intrusions. Together these two titled mandarins of the stage are guiding us into Pinter-land, where words struggle to contain the open-ended flux of existence. Our journey through it is brilliantly illuminated by their partnership...