Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chem S-20, one of the oldest Summer School offerings, traditionally draws large numbers of students, but the rise in popularity of Expos courses was noticeable. Last year, Expos ranked only 14th on the list of most popular courses...
...There have been a couple of problems, however. Two-hundred-pound MPs were bending the bikes out of shape, so the base plans to buy half a dozen sturdier models with thicker tires and wider seats. And a number of MPs found at first that they were all too popular: flocks of cycling children rode after them as if the pedaling policemen were Pied Pipers...
...seats for the Communists), and were unable to put together a majority coalition. Ever since, Andreotti has governed with the tacit support of the Communists and other major parties, who have consistently abstained on confidence votes. But this spring both the Communists and the Socialists (10% of the popular vote and 57 seats) demanded a more direct voice in government policy...
Died. Walter Kennedy, 65, longtime (1963-75) commissioner of the National Basketball Association; of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. During his tenure, basketball became almost as popular as baseball and football, a competitive American Basketball Association was organized, and players became some of the highest-salaried...
...criminal, and Bruno Cremer, as the banker, are seen to suffer interminable misery in some of the most squalid squalor anybody this side of a PBS documentarian has put on a screen in a long time. Friedkin has probably been more rigorous about all this than the requirements of popular film making dictate. Since he has an international cast working in a foreign locale, much of the dialogue is translated in subtitles, which is going to cause a certain impatience in the action houses...