Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humperdink, known for his Tom Jones-like sexuality, will appear in one sequence talking from Weeks Memorial Bridge near Leverett House. In another segment he will be seen jogging along the river with Pat Mitchell, hostess of the show...
...housing director Robert Alsworth said the university has moved about 120 of those students back into on-campus housing. He said this is the first year B.U. has had an overflow problem, but he added that he hopes to have all the remaining students back on campus in the near future...
DIED. F. van Wyck Mason, 76, prolific and bestselling historical novelist (among his more than 60 books: Three Harbours, Stars on the Sea, Cutlass Empire); of a heart attack while swimming; near Southampton, Bermuda. A skilled storyteller especially interested in colonial and Civil War America, Mason embellished his complex plots with minute detail and romantic flourish. He also penned a popular series of tales of intrigue featuring Captain (later Major and Colonel) Hugh North, and during World War II served as chief military historian for Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF command...
...votes were hopelessly dispersed among a broad scattering of realistic as well as throwaway names. By the second, taken right the lines began to grow clear. No non-Italian figured prominently on the tally sheet that each Cardinal marked as the names were called out. No Italian had anywhere near the necessary 75 votes (two-thirds of the conclave plus one). Nor did any have a discernible lead. But the main competition seemed to be between the principal Curial and pastoral candidates...
...about to take his exams for West Point, she gave him a pep talk that he never forgot: "You must believe in yourself, my son, or no one else will believe in you." Naturally, he passed and, just as naturally, his mother moved to Craney's Hotel near his dormitory, where for four years she could see the lamp in her son's window and tell whether he was doing his homework...