Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pumped into South Viet Nam over the past five years has quietly accomplished a "feat of political alchemy" by transforming a weak Saigon government into a strong regime with a clear chance of surviving. Pauker says that this chance can become a certainty if the U.S. will pick up the bills for at least a decade-not only for the regime's army, but also for an economic-aid program aimed at giving the people a stake in the status...
...sickening to hear the suggestion made that funds from the Radcliffe women, and Mrs. Bunting's acceptance of the proposal. Abortion is murder. With conception a new human being has come into existence, with the genetic material to develop into a child and then an adult. Can one pick out a moment in the process and say that up until then it was not human? The fetus is not, as some claim, just a part of the mother's body. It is distinct from her genetically and physically. It may not yet exent all the human faculties that it could...
...WALL of a bathroom in the Coop, someone has written "STRETCHING NEURONS, LEON"; the producers of Harvard Square were pleased to find out about it. It just goes to show that people have been following WBUR's "continuing drama" radio program closely enough to pick up on the catch-phrase ("stretching neurons!") of one of the show's characters (a drug culture sensualist named Leon). If people write about you on bathroom walls, you know you've made...
...losing. Just how much they learned became shockingly clear to the San Francisco Giants last year. When they went to Japan to take on such supposed pushovers as the Taiyo Whales, Nankai Hawks and Chunichi Dragons, the Giants were clobbered in six out of nine games. Now, anxious to pick up more pointers, the Japanese have sent two of their best teams, Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants and Lotte Orions, to train in Florida and Arizona respectively. As intended, their performances have given impetus to Japan's interest in internationalizing big league baseball and thus creating what Orions Chairman...
With 14 games remaining on their spring training schedule and dozens more American dishes to sample, the Orions have only one complaint: they can't find any suitable souvenirs to take home. Seems that everything they pick up is stamped "Made in Japan...