Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's a Ford in your future," ran the familiar ad. For retired Heavyweight Muhammad Ali, 37, Ford is in the past; it is a Toyota that beckons. Window-shopping in Beverly Hillsi Calif., Ali tried the driver's seat of a 1909 Ford Tour-About. Meanwhile, for Toyota, personal appearances and Ali plugs in Arabic are being planned for the champ in Saudi Arabia. The auto company hopes his well-known face and Muslim religion will persuade Saudis to go Toyota...
...faithful when the Times resumes on Nov. 13 and the Sunday Times on Nov. 18. To entice them, the Times is planning to spend between $2 million and $4 million on a promotional blitz. It also will publish special eight-page supplements on major issues of the past year, on developments in the arts and on books. For the record, there will be three eight-page obituary supplements. The Sunday Times, which bought serialization rights to Henry Kissinger's memoirs more than a year ago, will finally be able to print them. No other new wrinkles are contemplated, however...
Many think this is precisely the way the prize ought to remain. Arthur Jaffe, professor of Mathematical Physics, is one of them. Jaffe, who won the Heinemann Prize for mathematical physics this past week, contends that there's a good reason for the traditional lag: "the awarding of the Nobel Prize at too young an age can conceivably hamper a person's career. It focuses the attention, the publicity, in such a special way. You're so much in the spotlight, and your science suffers correspondingly." But Glashow, while feeling the immediate pressures of the prize and the extent...
...face fights. Two former councilors upset in the 1977 elections. Daniel Clinton and Leonard Russell, have outspent the incumbents ("People in office are less willing to hit up their supporters for dough" theorizes one city politician), and are trying to rebuild the coalitions that elected them in the past. Danehy didn't pay his taxes on time two years ago, a revelation that may damage his candidacy. Frisoli, who has run front page ads in local papers for weeks, is a rookie councilor fighting to keep the same support he had a year ago. Crane, labelling himself a councilor...
Beckford, who had been sidelined for the past three weeks nursing an injured achilles tendon, placed eighth in the race and was the Crimson's top finisher. Her-time of 17:58 qualified her for the national collegiate championships...