Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sore spots of a spring past, and thanks to extra playing time in Briggs Cage these past two months (the track team has vacated the dust bowl to run on the erasers at the new facility), there's no telling how close to the College World Series in Omaha in June that this year's edition will come...
...Before all the players on last year's team have graduated, it will undeniably be the best team I've ever had here," said Park yesterday. And that's saying a lot, coming from a guy who's already taken four Harvard baseball teams to Omaha in June...
...Unknown Soldier, Carter did an abbreviated replay of last January's Pennsylvania Avenue walkathon. He strolled several blocks down the Champs-Elysees with President Giscard, even worrying his Secret Service protectors by striding into curbside crowds. The next day he helicoptered to Normandy and walked along Omaha Beach-site of some of D-day's heaviest fighting-and laid a wreath at the American military cemetery where 9,386 casualties of that epic assault are buried...
...Wednesday, after his brief stopoff in Egypt, Carter is booked to fly to Paris for a wreath-laying at l'Arc de Triomphe, a walk along Normandy's Omaha Beach, one of the first to be stormed by Allied liberators in 1944, and dinner with President Valery Giscard d'Estaing at Versailles. Carter is expected to brief Giscard on the U.S.-Soviet strategic arms talks and will also discuss U.S. concern over the booming international arms business and the spread of atomic weapons. As a favor to Giscard, who leads a center-right political coalition that faces...
...Urban Flight. Young couples are moving back into the city, reversing a decline in population that started in 1975. The Brookings Institution declared last year that Seattle and Omaha were the two cities outside the Sunbelt that provide better education, greater employment opportunities, higher-paying jobs and less crowded housing than their suburbs...