Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tomorrow: The Swami predicts the outcome of the National League pennant race and shocks the world with his Series pick...
...garbled version of Jennifer from a tipster. On Feb. 8 of this year the newspaper ran a story about a CIA-Hughes contract to raise a Soviet submarine supposedly sunk in the Atlantic. The CIA waited with bated breath to see if the rest of the press would pick it up or, worse, if the Soviets would...
...point last Thursday, a reverse convoy of trucks commandeered by the army virtually halted all southbound traffic. Several hundred trucks were moving four abreast up the pass, blocking all southbound traffic. Dr. Richard Matern of the Save the Children Federation was trying to return to Hué to pick up his drug dispensary. "Traffic was backed up two miles, so I got on a Honda and went up to the top. There were no soldiers or police organizing things. A bunch of troops had left their trucks and were eating lunch. A couple of beautiful Vietnamese girls were singing...
...wanted to start a fund-raising drive at Harvard ten years ago, about all you had to do was pick up a phone and call a few alumni in New York, and maybe ask the Ford Foundation for three $250,000 grants over a period of three years...
...advanced his art to such a point that he was painting canvases that were--well, frankly, they were entirely black. They looked as if Reinhardt had given them a couple of swipes with a paint roller and called it a day. Some critics maintained that the discerning eye could pick out subtle variations from painting to painting--in the play of tone underneath the black, or in the direction of Reinhardt's brushstrokes--but the fact remained that to the masses, aside from the six of the canvases, all of Reinhardt's painting looked exactly the same. There are photographs...