Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...litigation stems from NAACP-led boycotts directed against 12 white merchants in Port Gibson, Miss. who, according to the NAACP, were not providing adequate employment opportunities for members of the local black community...
Meanwhile, Tonis highly recommends retirement, and says he doesn't miss Harvard because "it's like I never left...
Manila is not yet a standard stop on the international convention and curiosity circuit, but it seems to be trying. Two years ago, the Philippine capital played host to the Miss Universe Contest, and last year it had the Ali-Frazier heavyweight title bout. Last week the city rolled out the carpet for 1,500 leaders of international finance and banking who gathered to attend the first annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ever held in Southeast Asia...
...years it seemed that Novelist Muriel Spark had talent to burn. Then, in the late 1960s, a suspicion arose that burning was exactly what she had done with it. Gone was the somber exuberance of such earlier triumphs as Memento Mori, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means. The froth turned sour and her amused awareness of human daffiness was drowned in simple venom. The Abbess of Crewe (1974), Spark's deft parody of Watergate set in an English convent, gave reason to hope that all was not lost. The Takeover proves that nothing...
...Ischia, they must hire men to stand on the beach and pose as intruders-in order to crowd out the real ones. Says Maggie: "The time is coming when we'll have to employ our own egg throwers to throw eggs at us, and, my God, of course, miss their aim, when we go to the opera on a gala night." Jewel and art thieves, Communist lawyers, peculating financiers-all descend on Maggie and leave her fortune in tatters...