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Word: pickings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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During a three-day hearing, 37 listeners testified for Geller, only two for his opponents. Last week FCC Administrative Judge John H. Conlin praised Geller for his "selfless dedication and highly personalized style" and renewed his license for three years. Battle over, Geller hopes that advertising will pick up. Says he: "It's taken ten years of starving before the big national advertisers realized I was here, but they're starting to wake up." Score another one for the little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Singlehanded Victory | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...shopkeepers, have been hit unfairly hard in a crackdown on private enterprise that Hanoi launched last April. It says that in the past two months 133,000 Chinese have fled from "barbarous treatment" in Viet Nam. Last week two Chinese ships steamed into the Gulf of Tonkin to pick up Chinese at three Vietnamese ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Lenin's Way | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Plays: Loeb Experimental Theater--"The Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder, and "Where the Cross is Made," by Eugene O'Neill. One act each, with some improvisation. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Loeb Drama Center. Free; pick up tickets at Loeb box office between noon and 6 p.m. the day of the show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER SCHOOL CALENDAR | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

Face it--you didn't come to Harvard for the food. And that's a good thing, because between the swill they serve at the Union and the kind of junk you're liable to pick up between beers at some of the local taverns, your digestive tract is in for a long, gaseous summer. After all, if you feel like eating--and it's become a remarkably popular pastime here over the years--you've only got three choices, none of which is going to earn you a place in the dietician's Hall of Fame: Harvard food (which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Murder Your Intestine | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Plays: Loeb Experimental Theater--"The Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder, and "Where the Cross is Made," by Eugene O'Neill. One act each, with some improvisation. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Loeb Drama Center. Free; pick up tickets at Loeb box office between noon and 6 p.m. the day of the show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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