Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffer endless delays and are then emasculated. Following Lufthansa Pilot Schumann's death, Derry Pearce, president of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Association, threatened a worldwide two-day pilots' strike unless the U.N. finally acted against skyjacking. After a promise from Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim that an "urgent item" on the issue will be brought before the General Assembly this week, Pearce announced that the strike had been postponed...
...crude homemade press in Warsaw last week rolled 1,000 copies of Poland's newest underground journal Glos (Voice). The issue should quickly become a collector's item. Tucked in among articles on philosophy and international affairs was a seven-page manifesto that constituted the boldest challenge to Poland's Communist regime since food strikes and riots paralyzed the nation in 1976. It may be one of the most important political documents to surface in Eastern Europe since the near revolution of October...
Ferris is more interested in transforming Dylan Thomas from a literary gossip item into a case history of arrested adolescence. He has supplemented the story of the Swansea son of an overattentive mother and dissapointed schoolteacher father with some fresh evidence. A former baby sitter recalls the child Dylan as "an absolute tartar, an appalling boy." At twelve, he plagiarized a poem and had it published in the Cardiff Western Mail As a young reporter in Swansea, Thomas developed his heavy drinking habits for, Ferris suggests, "the pleasure of being rescued afterwards." He was obsessed with fears of sexual inferiority...
...question of what to do about student demands for more women's studies at Harvard was the first item on the Faculty Council's agenda in September, and until last week it looked as if the council was taking it very seriously...
While the merits of the environmental program might seem indisputable on the surface, segments of the South Boston community appear vehemently opposed to the work of the Thomson Education Center. One example: an item from last week's edition of the South Boston Tribune states, "Keep your eyes open for new brainwashing attempts from the high school. Winegar and his imported cronies, along with some local traitors, are making plans now. One of the places to be used is Thomson's Island." Headmaster Winegar says some South Boston residents see the Thomson Island program as a form of brainwashing "because...