Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston public school teachers voted late last night in a secret ballot to accept a new contract offer from the Boston School Committee, averting a threatened strike by thz 5500 teachers today...
...preference for easy exhibition money over the demands of playing through a grueling tournament has littered the tennis calendar with nonscheduled two-man events and, too often, left promoters and sponsors with literally empty nets. Without top tennis names in the tourneys, gate sales slump and sponsors disappear. Late withdrawals to rest or to nurse phantom injuries-only to have fallen heroes turn up at an exhibition in Puerto Rico, not an orthopedic ward-have become common. As a result, corporations once eager to hitch their brand names to the tennis bandwagon have begun to have second thoughts. American Airlines...
...Says Ashe: "Only when the players take it upon themselves to assume responsibility for the circuit and the health the game as a whole will we have coherence. Right now we've got some greedy players at the top who do whatever they please, entering tournaments late, asking for illegal guarantees...
DIED. Robert Shaw, 51, fiery character actor, novelist and playwright who parlayed his rugged good looks and powerful screen presence into late-blooming Hollywood stardom; of a heart attack; in Tourmakeady, Ireland. Shaw wrote five novels, critically acclaimed in his native Britain, and rewrote one, The Man in the Glass Booth, as a successful Broadway play directed by Harold Pinter. But he was best known as an actor, first on the London stage (Tiger at the Gates, The Long and the Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a wide-ranging gallery of rogues. Among them...
Such pregnancies are disturbingly common. Of 3.1 million babies born in the U.S. each year, nearly 30,000 do not survive their first week. Many are born prematurely and weigh less than 5½ lbs. Another 20,000 die in the uterus late in pregnancy. While the number of doctors and nurses with the skills needed to deal with such cases is growing, they are often situated at scattered medical centers not easily accessible to women and infants who most need them...