Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question at issue last week when a federal judge in Washington, B.C., refused to issue an injunction to halt construction of a base vital to the Navy's $15 billion Trident submarine program. Judge George Hart's ruling set the stage for a February trial that will pit environmentalists and landowners against the Navy and a new type of "public interest" law firm...
Died. Anatole Litvak, 72, Russian-born film director best known for the original version of Mayerling (1936), starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, and The Snake Pit (TIME cover, Dec. 20, 1948), starring Olivia de Havilland, which was acclaimed as Hollywood's first realistic examination of insanity; in Neuilly, France...
Johnny Boyd, 37, learned of the new law while awaiting his sentence on a first-degree burglary conviction. He discovered that it did not apply to him because he had committed the crime before the statute was passed. Since then, he says, "every day has been the bottom pit of hell. I never get away from the fact that the chances are they may march me to that gas chamber...
TACKLES: Kurt Schumacher, Ohio State, 6 ft. 4 in., 250 lbs. A superior pit fighter. Another block of stone from Ohio State who is an excellent power blocker and a brainy player...
...Into the Pits. This silver beauty bears little resemblance to Andre's first cornet, a gift from his father, who played in the Ales band. Though Andre pere sent his son into the pits at age 14, he kept him at his trumpet lessons. Four years later, he bowed to the teacher's urging and packed the boy off to Paris to enter the Conservatoire. For over a decade before records began to spread his reputation, Andre took any job he could get: TV commercials, jazz dates, concerts in the Michel Legrand orchestra and endless La Bohemes...