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...ministers of OPEC, along with delegates from five other producing countries, met late last month in Geneva in an attempt to patch together an agreement for sopping up the glut. The nine-day marathon session degenerated into what one delegate called "a state of unprecedented disarray." Even the meeting quarters seemed a mockery of the group's onetime ability to intimidate the industrial powers. Because most of the Hotel Inter-Continental was already booked, the ministers had to cram into a tiny conference room for their meeting...
...treason at the Tower of London. Innocent pawns in a plot engineered by the influential Duke of Northumberland to alter the plan of royal succession as drawn up by the late King Henry VIII, the two young nobles were imprisoned by the allegedly rightful heir Queen Mary after a nine-day period during which Jane ruled England as Queen...
...main events of the year is the 300th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.* Anyone who missed the St. Matthew Passion in Bach's hometown of Leipzig on his actual birthday, March 21, can sample Bach festivals in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, as well as the nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing the steps of the hero of Ulysses from church to pub and onward...
...days after visiting the bookstore, Bernhard Hugo Goetz, 37, ended his nine-day flight from justice. Since pulling out a silver revolver on a subway and pumping bullets into four teen-agers who asked him if he had $5--leaving one of them partly paralyzed--Goetz had driven to New Hampshire in a rented car, returned to New York for one day, then taken off again in yet another rented car. On a crisp, bright afternoon in peaceful Concord, N.H., Goetz grew tired of fleeing. The pale, gaunt electronics engineer walked into local police headquarters and calmly told an officer...
...Crimson poll surveyed 210 randomly-selected seniors over a nine-day period between May 22 and May 30. The margin of error for the poll is 6 percent...