Word: mayaguez
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...door blown in," Kevin Kallaugher said, summing up the Classics' opening encounter with the national team. Despite the 86-50 debacle, the team was never nonplused after hitting the hard-wood of Mayaguez in their third crack at the Puerto Rican squad...
...tropical rain storm wailed through the rafters of the air-conditioned coliseum in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico as the Classics, Harvard's self-styled "vagabonding basketeers" took to the floor, undaunted by the murmur of a capacity crowd and the steady woosh emanating from the opposite end of the court as the Puerto Rican national team ran through a dunking drill...
When play got under way in Mayaguez the Classics turned in their strongest outing against the talent-laden host team, favored to win the bronze medal at the Olympics in Montreal, clinging to a 35-34 lead at the half before succumbing...
...country's natural beauty. Roland Flamini's tour as TIME'S Hollywood reporter led to Scarlett, Rhett and a Cast of Thousands, the story of how Gone With the Wind was made. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan spent a week on board the Mayaguez after the ship was rescued from the Cambodians, taping the recollections of captain and crew. During a six-week "vacation" he wrote from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. to produce The Four Days of Mayaguez. Jerrold Schecter, head of our Moscow bureau from 1968 to 1970 and now TIME'S diplomatic...
...with American foreign policy--these rhetorical proposals will almost certainly never be implemented. The proposals are really designed for domestic consumption, to advance the image of an America standing up for her national pride and democratic heritage, defending her self-image with force if necessary, as in the Mayaguez incident. This policy is identical in substance with that of Ford and Kissinger; Moynihan was merely indiscreet enough to say publicly what the exigencies of detente forbid the administration from expressing. Moynihan was sacrificed symbolically, but conservative Americans need not fear: the policy he supports will survive until Americans recognize...