Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seattle even has a one-family gang: seven brothers, eleven to 20, who have been arrested 192 times in the past nine years. Enough of the boys are always at liberty to keep up the family tradition. Says Seattle Police Sergeant Dick Ramon: "The frightening thing is that they're going to continue producing misery for years and years...
Careful Letter. By week's end, everybody seemed ready to cool down somewhat. In Washington, nine Senators, including Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Sparkman, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, wrote a careful letter of "support" to Carter, which nevertheless reminded him of the U.S. commitment to Israel's security and endorsed the idea of a nonimposed settlement. The State Department message, insisted Assistant Secretary Alfred Atherton, was "certainly not intended as a threat of any sort" to Israel. At his press conference Carter declared a Washington moratorium on any "additional comments on specifics...
...million non-French Quebeckers, most of whom are English-speaking. Trudeau's government sympathizes with Lévesque's aim of preserving French, but fears that the bill is only a first step toward the Premier's avowed goal of separating Quebec from the other nine Canadian provinces...
...most hotly debated proposals concern the public education system. If Lévesque has his way, all new residents of Quebec must send their children to French-language schools, unless at least one parent attended English-language elementary school in the province. The rationale: nine out of ten non-French-speaking immigrants to Quebec now choose English-language schooling for their children-a trend that threatens the long-term survival of French as the province's principal language...
Monroe's twice-a-day stage shows featured some of bluegrass's biggest names during the nine-day festival: the Osborne Brothers, Fiddlers Kenny Baker and Tex Logan, Banjoist Ralph Stanley and Guitarist Lester Flatt. Many of those present, however, were less interested in the stars onstage than in the chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute...