Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every Thursday afternoon the ritual of protest is repeated in front of Argentina's presidential Pink House in central Buenos Aires. A small group of women gather in the Plaza de Mayo under the watchful eyes of blue-uniformed police. There, for 30 minutes or so, the women walk in a large circle. There is no sound but their footsteps. Occasionally, the women may try to present a petition at the government building; almost always they are rebuffed. Then they disperse, returning to take up their vigil the following week...
...minutes to an hour; Saturday Night Live was at death's door; and Tom Snyder and Rona Barrett spent as much time engaging in star wars with each other as tending to their duties on Tomorrow. Affiliate stations were deserting. Executives moved through NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as if on a guided tour. The bottom line dropped out just before Silverman did. In 1980, when ABC earned $301 million and CBS $249 million, NBC'S profits were a pitiful $75 million-half the earnings of 1977, the year before Silverman arrived...
...meeting opened on a note of scarcely tolerable grief as the participants huddled in the vast plaza of Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem documentation center dedicated to Holocaust victims. In tears, they watched a sound-and-light show of the German conquest of Europe and of the eventual liberation, the sound track hammering home the pounding of Luftwaffe bombs. Whipped by a cold wind, the survivors broke into songs like I Believe, sung by their relatives on the way to the gas chambers. The group then recited the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead...
...meantime, gay Harvard graduates have established alumni associations in Boston, New York and San Francisco, and are now forming chapters in Atlanta, Houston and Washington, D.C. The associations congregated in Boston's Park Plaza Hotel last week to plan the creation of a tax-exempt foundation that would supply tens of thousands of dollars to gay student organizations for educational activities like GLAD Days. They are also talking of setting up scholarships for gay students who have been disowned by their parents, and of funding an endowed chair in gay studies at Harvard. One gay alumnus. Toby Marotta, will soon...
This morning the city of Boston will roast its latest favorite sons the 1980-81 National Basketball Association champion Celtics, with Boston Celtics' Day highlighted by a parade at 11 a.m. The procession will start at the Park Plaza Hotel and finish up in front of City Hall...