Word: nonetheless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hunkered down in a new determination to preserve his throne (see box), the Shah was inexplicably absent from the ceremonies and failed to take the customary salute. Nonetheless, for the first time in the past two months, the capital appeared to have recovered a semblance of normality. Sporadic violence and protest demonstrations persisted in some outlying provinces; in the northeastern city of Mashhad, three people by official account -13 according to anti-Shah sources -were killed when troops fired on demonstrators. But most of the country's striking workers went back to their jobs, including employees of Iran...
...been helped by their opponents. "The D.F.L. didn't know how to act without Humphrey," observed Senator-elect Durenberger. But he predicted: "It's going to take a few years for the D.F.L. to react to the loss of Hubert, and then it will be back." Republicans nonetheless had reason to savor their good fortune. One of the cheeriest of all was former Governor Harold Stassen, the boy wonder of Minnesota politics in 1938, before his party was routed by Humphrey's D.F.I Vowed the never-give-up Stassen: "We are going to rebuild the Republican Party...
...election nonetheless could provide hope of another chance for every sinner. Former Congressman Wayne Hays, employer of the premiere nontyping secretary, Elizabeth Ray, won election last week to the Ohio general assembly with 52% of the vote...
...Christina not write her book when her mother was alive to defend herself? "The story was not yet finished," she replies, somewhat disingenuously. "I had no idea how it would end." Many of Joan's friends, some of whom confirm the basic facts of Christina's grim tale, are nonetheless sorry that it ended this way. "I cried when I read the book," says one of them, Screenwriter Leonard Spigelgass. "But I really cried for Joan. There is an absolute nausea among her friends in learning these things...
...Harvard season began, of course, with lots of unfamiliar numbers in there, but strong title hopes nonetheless. The Crimson had supercool Larry Brown back at quarterback, a stable of runners led by RalphPolillio and Wayne Moore, a dependable offensive line (without which no football team--anywhere--does anything of note) despite the essentially virgin defense...