Word: hr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jimmy Carter, who wanted to adopt a supremely presidential style, it was a bumpy week indeed. Carter had long been grumbling to associates that his campaign strategy needed to be overhauled. At a 2½-hr. shirtsleeved meeting with his top political aides on Sunday, he decided to give the task to his closest adviser, White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan. Jordan accordingly joined the re-election committee as deputy to Chairman Robert Strauss. As Jordan's successor in the White House, Carter named Jack Watson, 41, the former Atlanta lawyer who managed the President's transition...
...Gottlieb of Olympia, Wash., who set a record for playing the violin under water, Japan has come up with an entire underwater orchestra, a first. To raise funds for a local charity, a man and a woman in Des Moines lovingly sat in tubs of vanilla pudding for 24 hr. 34 min. 20 sec., the only record ever set for a pudding sit- but one that will no doubt be challenged...
After his 1-hr. 15-min. tour, Carter excitedly told reporters: "The moon looks like a golf course compared to what's up there." At a meeting with townspeople in Vancouver, the President was being briefed by experts on the economic damage of the eruption when Governor Ray interrupted. "This is all very interesting," she said, "but the top priority is people." Replied Carter: "What do you need specifically?" Ray spelled out her answer: "M-O-N-E-Y." In fact, before leaving Washington, D.C., Carter had declared the mountain's vicinity a federal disaster area, making residents...
...John's (away) 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 3--6 Harvard (home) 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0--3 F--Bauer. DP--St. John's, 2; Harvard, 1. LOB--St. John's 12; Harvard 10. 2B--Bingham. HR--Miller, Farrell. SB--Latrenta. S--Pearce 3, Bingham, Skaff...
...S.A.S. recruits-all volunteers from other British army regiments-is exceedingly rigorous. The initial four-week selection course has a 90% failure rate. For starters, recruits are sent crawling through noxious sheep-dips and marching over mountainous terrain in Wales carrying 55-lb. backpacks on a 37%-mile, 20-hr, trek. In one ten-day exercise, half-naked recruits are set down at the mouth of a Welsh valley, harried by deafening sirens and an infantry force firing real bullets. Those who pass these tests are then taught such skills as demolition, lock picking, sabotage, unarmed combat, mountaineering, skiing, underwater...