Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California Senator S.I. Hayakawa, 71, who favors mandatory retirement (he retired from San Francisco State College in 1973) sees politics as a good new career for the aged. By then ambition, at least of an opportunistic sort, is spent, he says. "When you are 65, you have proven yourself already or you have not. It does not matter any more. We are no longer on the make." For Hayakawa, politics is much like scuba diving, which he has just taken up. "It is scary, but extremely exhilarating," he says. "If you have ceased to be ready to face the frightening...
...first team player Ray Schnettgoecke and All-Ivy second team Pat Weir return at midfield, and Tom Turnbull anchors the defense in front of stellar goalies Paul Obermeyer and Ted Von Gerichten. On offense, proven players Peter Van Beek, Tom Pelletier and Tom O'Brien return...
...positive knowledge of whether or not abortion constitutes the taking of a life. Yet a real biological possibility exists that this is the case. Given this possibility, the government must accord the fetus the same rights it grants the average criminal suspect: the assumption that it is innocent, until proven guilty, of being an "expendable" member of society. Until proof exists to the contrary, any "moral justification" for abortion simply does not exist...
...Lance back to Georgia with the highest recommendation that the President of the U.S. could give. The press conference was a moving, human performance. Yet, by insisting so vehemently that all of the many sharp criticisms of Lance's manipulations as a go-go Georgia banker had "been proven false and without foundation," Carter displayed a surprisingly irrational and stubborn refusal to face facts adverse to his friend and to his own reputation for cool judgment and high ethics...
Harvard is coming off its worst defeat since this year's seniors were back in high school, and is still a team without a proven quarterback. A week and a half ago. Tim Davenport was reported lost for the season...