Word: macke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mack Davis, director of the Program of Advanced Standing, said yesterday it is too soon to know whether assigning all the transfer students to the Quad will work out. He added that he thought there were ample opportunities for Quad residents to get involved with campus life...
...irreverent British Tommies fighting to preserve colonial rule on Cyprus 25 years ago, he was Mack the Knife. His Turkish enemies reviled him as the Dark Priest, for his Byzantine politics rather than the black beard, cassock and tall kalimavki or clerical stovepipe hat that were his trademarks. Some American diplomats denigrated him as the Castro of the Mediterranean. But last week, after Archbishop Makarios III, President of Cyprus, died suddenly of a heart attack ten days before his 64th birthday, even enemies could agree with the tearful epitaph of one mourning Cypriot. "To the world," cried the man, wiping...
Cloud Seeding. In Vienna, Ga., home town of President Carter's press secretary Jody Powell, Dooly County Farm Agent Mack Sloan manages a weak wisecrack: "If it don't rain here soon, a lot of people will go under and have to go into selling roadside peanuts to Plains tourists." Farmers in every county, including Tom Chandler, Billy Carter's partner in several peanut deals, are collecting one dollar for every acre of peanut land so they can hire an airplane for a month's cloud seeding at a total cost of $75,000. Last week...
...women actually led the fleet by nine points after the first day, thanks to the slick work of captain Laura Brown and "A" Division skipper Pam Mack. But then the winds changed and the 'Cliffe sailors found themselves in the middle of the fleet, while MIT and URI floated home with the big silver...
...soon as we get some more practice we ought to be able to do better," senior Pam Mack explained--"we've just got to get some more boat time." And maybe pray for a more favorable breeze...