Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 61, and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, 50,* came into office good friends and close colleagues-and they were determined to remain so. They have stepped in to squelch attempts by their underlings to pick fights between the State Department and the National Security Council. The two men have roughly equal access to the President: Brzezinski briefs him early every morning, while Vance's last official act of the day is usually to prepare a confidential memo on late developments for Carter's bedtime reading. But Vance and Brzezinski have had their differences...
...colleagues learned that 20 of the birds had excessively high concentrations of dieldrin, a chemical kin of DDT, in their livers and brains. But use of the lethal insecticide is sharply restricted in Britain, as it is in the U.S. and other countries. So how did the owls pick up the poison...
...spokesman for The Globe said Erlanger was shot as he returned to his hotel room at about 8:30 a.m. As he bent down to pick up a newspaper, the assailant appeared, pointing a gun at Erlanger and demanding money. Erlanger began to rise, and the gun went off, wounding him in the abdomen...
...reached Newark without incident (except for the aforementioned encounter with the woman who had received The Word), but when I got there, my friend, who had vowed to pick me up at 9 p.m., had not yet arrived...
Personally, I'd like to pick Atlanta over both of them, because both teams are about as thrilling as a stoplight in Somerville on Saturday night...