Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After dinner the festivities continued at the Kennedy Center, with an hour-long variety show that included excerpts from the Broadway musical Eubie, the Jeffrey...
...contradictory statements about when the call was made to police raised the question of whether an hour had elapsed between the time that Rockefeller died and the time of the call. To judge from Marshack's somewhat hyterical conversation, which was taped by the police, Rocky's seizure had just occurred. That also was the verdict of the medical examiner. Morrow, who was not present, issued a series of corrections to his previous accounts, then declined further comment. Marshack went into seclusion...
Last week the Resorts International casino in Atlantic City followed the precedent of Las Vegas gaming houses and decided to deal Uston, and at least ten other known counters, out of the game. The casino had cause for alarm: Uston was winning at the rate of $700 an hour and had accumulated $43,000 in chips in about 60 hours of playing when he was informed of the ban. Undaunted, Uston plans to file a complaint with the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. He also may continue to place a few chips on the sly: "Maybe...
...three-hour Thursday evening meeting, the assembly passed resolution after resolution: condemning next year's college cost increase, supporting reform of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and calling for a campus-wide demonstration to protest the University's refusal to rename the Englehard Library at the Kennedy School...
Major problems remain. A first is cost: the alarm sells for $1,500; parent training sessions, social worker home visits and a 24-hour hospital team of doctor, nurse and alarm repairman can bring the final tab to a daunting $4,000. Moreover, many apnea-prone babies die from a first attack, before parents are aware of the need for medical help. Most discouraging, apnea is almost certainly not the sole cause of SIDS (one Boston specialist puts the incidence rate at anywhere from 5% to 90% of all SIDS cases), so the alarm can only be a stopgap measure...