Word: pack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lackluster mayoralty campaign that made up in the number of candidates fielded (eleven in all) for what it lacked in zest, Atlanta's 35-year-old black vice mayor, Maynard Jackson, all 275 Ibs. of him, broke from the pack last week and finished first with 46.6% of the vote. In next week's runoff, Jackson seems likely to beat incumbent Mayor Sam Massell, who finished second with 19.8%. Running a close third, with 19.1% of the vote, was Charles Weltner, a U.S. Congressman from 1963 to 1967 who was one of the South's first white...
...cannery who cut and can the sardines are all women. Standing next to a conveyor belt loaded with fresh fish, they grab the sardines, cut off the heads and tails with a flick of the wrist, and stuff them into the tins. "We've tried using men to pack the fish," says Peacock, "but for some reason they just don't have the stamina. They can't take it for more than a few hours...
Campbell blazed around a difficult Andover course in 12:18.8, eclipsing the three-year-old course mark by two seconds. He broke away from a pack of runners at the two-mile mark, and coasted home...
...meeting of high-powered feminists that was thrown into an uproar when one of the participants decided to go topless, and a story on Willie Morris' fall from the editorship of Harper's that brilliantly exposed the machinations of the publishing business and "the literary pack" in New York. When she is not working, Curtis heads to Cleveland, where her husband, Dr. William Hunt, lives. When she moves to the Times's editorial offices on Jan. 1, she will become the highest-placed woman editor in Times history. That will not stop her from taking along...
...mean, it wasn't as though we had much to pack. We weren't even wearing fig leaves...