Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because, in yesterday's fourteen hour marathon tournament, Bennett was the sole bright spot, grabbing a spot in the foil finals which will be held this afternoon. Meanwhile, the Crimson foil squad took 5th place with 21 point total...
...farmer who, when original plans for a 1969 weekend rock concert went awry because of local regulations, became the patron saint of the counterculture when he opened his 600-acre farm to more than 300,000 uninhibited, youthful celebrators of the Woodstock festival; of an apparent heart attack; in Marathon...
...high-pressure last-minute drive to finish the accord was carried out on two levels. Working furiously through the weekend in Paris, a technical team headed by U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State William Sullivan held marathon sessions with a similar Hanoi group. Still at issue as Kissinger flew back to Paris for a final top-level meeting with Hanoi's Le Due Tho were a few technical questions, such as turning P.O.W.s over to the U.S. officials...
...long argued that some Geritol claims were deceptive because the vast majority of people who suffer from vague listless feelings would not be helped by the product. FTC investigations of Geritol began in 1959, but have been stalled in the regulatory mill and the courts ever since. The marathon case ranks second only to the FTC's 16-year effort to get Carter Products, Inc. to stop misleading advertising that claimed its Carter's Little Liver Pills could overcome lethargy and even the blues...
...some months, Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro has been showing nearly as much distaste for Havana-bound hijackers as have American authorities. Last Nov. 10, after three men hijacked a Southern Airways jet and took it on a marathon flight to Cuba (TIME, Nov. 27), Castro ordered them jailed and called for broader measures to put the clamps on aerial piracy. With that, the U.S. and Cuba, through Swiss intermediaries, began negotiations that could lead to a mutual agreement to ensure that hijackers would face harsh punishment for their crime in both countries...