Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bravo to Psychiatrist Robert Coles [Feb. 14], who has discovered that the troubles of America can be identified by any social scientist but solutions will only come from the heart! Unfortunately the intellectual community remains aloof, intolerant and uncaring about the great majority of Americans. They would rather pick on people's weaknesses than embrace their strengths...
...many states, the new rules make a remarkable difference. Four years ago, for example, a handful of Democratic Party leaders in Arizona met privately to pick that state's delegation. But last month more than 35,000 Democrats cast ballots as a first step in choosing Arizona's delegates. Similarly, in the state of Iowa some 45,000 Democrats cared enough to venture out in a January blizzard to attend 2,600 precinct caucuses and make their preferences known at the base of the selection pyramid...
Camera crews went on official side trips to communes and factories, and visited an army base. CBS's Dan Rather ventured into a Peking short-order shop where he found, to no one's great surprise, Chinese eating such things as pork stew and noodles. Trying to pick up any scrap of news, everybody followed every move Mrs. Nixon made. NBC's Barbara Walters, one of three women included in the press group, hovered so close to the First Lady that other members of the press contingent nicknamed her "No. 2." Mrs. Nixon, in fact, should...
...morning commuters, the transit system guarantees that a Telebus will arrive within 15 minutes after a call. The bus quickly collects a full load of south-side passengers and drops them off at a comfortable waiting room, where regular buses pick them up for the ride to Regina's downtown area. In the evening, the Telebuses pick up returning workers at the waiting rooms and deposit them at their doorsteps...
...sending people whom we think have a chance to score," assistant coach Ed Stowell said last night. "I think the field event guys have the strongest shot, but the rest of the squad could pick up points...