Word: majors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spellbinder with crowds, Shagari, a chain-smoking, onetime science teacher, edged his two main rivals, who hinted after the election that they might challenge the results. The two were Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, a major architect of Nigeria's independence, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Ibo leader who was the nonelected President during the brief parliamentary republic. In the campaign, Shagari emphasized his experience as a minister of finance, education and other departments in previous regimes. Though once a leader of an organization that advocated "national unity" under Hausa domination, he picked an Ibo running mate. Moreover, he managed...
...citizens; moreover, fully 40% of the country's nonwhites were born in Britain, and that proportion is swelling fast as a result of a birth rate that is 50% higher than the national average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup in February 1978, 49% thought that nonwhites should be offered financial help to return "home," as if they were not already there. Indeed, the British seem to regard the race problem as an unfortunate accident from which they still hope to recover...
DIED. Walter F. O'Malley, 75, former president of the Brooklyn Dodgers who in 1958 moved "da bums" to Los Angeles, thus introducing major league baseball to the West Coast; of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn. A brusque, chunky man who called himself "Fatso," O'Malley made a fortune buying up Depression-cheap mortgages, and in 1950 acquired a controlling interest in Dodgers stock. When local politicians blocked his plans to build a stadium to replace Brooklyn's decrepit Ebbets Field, O'Malley made good on his warning, "Have franchise, will travel...
Despite the danger to all involved, there were no major injuries. Relieved, Jones relaxed by shooting a nude scene between two of the actors. American viewers will not see that sequence, but he figures it will help attract theater audiences in Europe, where audiences apparently think whoomp! means something other than an exploding helicopter...
...courses that Shelley Hack never needed as a history major at Smith were how to handle a snub-nosed .38 and the proper way to kick nasty men in the ribs. Neither did she require such talents as the sybaritic Charlie perfume girl. But both are in her curriculum now that Hack, 31, has replaced Kate Jackson in the trio of Charlie's Angels alongside Veterans Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith. Artfully imitating her own earlier life, Hack will play a Seven Sisters seraph named Tiffany Welles. As such, she has to bite the Angel dust from time...