Word: marshals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday, the racquetwomen played a doubleheader of Penn and Franklin and Marshal, but yesterday's match against Wellesley was the toughest match of the weekend...
...summit's host, Ethiopia felt it should remain neutral; Uganda also abstained from the voting because its leader, Field Marshal Idi Amin, is O.A.U. chairman. If South Africa were to withdraw its forces from Angola, most of Black Africa might favor an immediate cease-fire and the installation of a coalition government in Luanda, which would give a voice to each of the country's varied regional, tribal and political factions. No regime, for example, could govern effectively without the cooperation of the pro-UNITA Ovimbundu tribe in the south. Yet many African states have been unwilling...
...their own legislative program instead of reacting as usual to White House proposals, they were not too successful-largely because of lackluster leadership. Speaker of the House Carl Albert, 67, and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, 72-who may not seek re-election next year-never really tried to marshal their troops. As a result, the Democrats did not cope with a number of important issues, including revising the antiquated federal criminal code, writing national health and no-fault auto insurance and imposing gun controls. One of Congress's worst shortcomings was its failure to reform the tax code...
...LOOK BOOK. Edited by Leo Rosten. 397 pages. Abrams. $29.95. From its first issue in 1937, which carried a cover picture of Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, to its final number in 1971, depicting the preWatergate Nixon White House, Look chronicled and celebrated a generation of American life. Novelist-Humorist Leo Rosten, who was once chief editorial adviser to Look, has pored through back issues to compile this souvenir album. Articles by Norman Mailer, Harry Truman, Eugene O'Neill and others do not stand the test of age. But the powerful pictures...
...Evelyn was something of a misfit. Despite an ample display of valor in the battle for Crete, the insubordinate officer was passed from general to general. In Yugoslavia, Evelyn amused himself by circulating a story that Tito was a lesbian in drag. The story caught up with the marshal. "Ask Captain Waugh," he told the British commander, "why he thinks I am a woman." For the only time in his life, the writer was at a loss for words...