Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cranston, the treaties' floor leader, could count only 60 sure votes and four more "leaning" in favor of the pact, with eight still undecided. Although Cranston hopes to pick up more votes in the weeks ahead, he cautions: "I wouldn't bet a large amount of money on the outcome...
...negotiations, Kyprianou received two fateful overseas telephone calls. The first was from Arafat in Beirut. The P.L.O. leader was furious because a close aide was among the hostages. Arafat offered the services of a twelve-man squad of experienced gunmen. Kyprianou accepted and dispatched an airliner to Beirut to pick them up. The squad, armed with Soviet AK-47 submachine guns, was kept out of sight inside the terminal, waiting for a crack at the hijackers. Later, there were reports that Arafat's men participated in the shooting of the Egyptian commandos, but Cyprus officials insisted that the P.L.O...
...Tiegs practices her ground strokes in Bel Air and considers which pile of money to pick up, others are calculating in Manhattan. The natural look, with its painted-on vitamins, its hair falling down and its clothes falling off, seems good for another year or two, but it will not last forever. Eileen Ford thinks that it will be replaced by a more delicate, refined, romantic illusion, and she wonders when she should start signing up delicate, fine-boned young women...
...body hair (he's saving his shave for the NCAA meet)--set his third meet record in as many nights. The powerful Olympic silver medalist churned through the water in 15:22.80, which shattered the old record by more than 25 seconds, to win his third individual event and pick up the Phil Moriarty Award as the meet's individual high point scorer...
...first of these, the 200-yd. butterfly, Princeton placed four men in the top 12 to pick up 28 points. The event was not as disastrous for Harvard as it could have been, however, as Yale's muscular Mark DeVore overtook the Tigers' defending champion Bill Specht in the last 50 yards to rob the leaders of three points. Harvard's Dan Menichella provided a small boost by finishing 11th...