Word: laga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because of ideological considerations, but because so major an issue had not been permitted enough discussion. They tried "Stalinist methods to democratize the party," grumbled one P.S.U.C. stalwart. In Asturias, 113 of 500 provincial delegates walked out of their conference, complaining about stifled minority rights, while in Málaga, some 200 dissidents railed against "lack of internal democracy." In Madrid, there were charges that some of the delegates who would vote on Thesis XV had been hand-picked by the leadership...
Died. Sir Stanley Baker, 48, Welsh-born character actor who won fame as a cinema villain; of heart and lung disease; in Málaga, Spain. Baker was ready to follow his father into the coal mines when a movie producer spied him in a school play and offered him a screen test. Signed to his first big film contract in 1956, Baker played in such hit action movies as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) and Innocent Bystanders...
Harvard's junior varsity crew swept to an easy victory Saturday to bring home the Ladies Challenge Cup from the historic Royal Henley Regatta, at Henley, England. The J.V.s led all the way down the course defeating the defending trophy holders from the Netherlands, Laga Delftsche, by 2 3/4 lengths...