Word: provos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BORN. To Donny Osmond, 21, co-host of TV's Donny & Marie show, and Debra Glenn Osmond, 20: a son, their first child; in Provo, Utah. Name: Donald Clark...
BRIGHAM YOUNG 113, HARVARD 72 at Provo, Utah...
...Department of Justice has threatened to sue Brigham Young University and 36 Provo, Utah, landlords for violation of the Fair Housing Act. Replying to Government charges that it is illegal to refuse housing on the basis of sex-even in off-campus college apartments-B.Y.U. President Dallin H. Oaks noted that enforcement of such a law "would make separate men's and women's dormitories illegal on every campus in the country...
Before the royal yacht Britannia sailed through the morning mist of Belfast Lough, violence had already flared up. In Londonderry, the I.R.A. Provisionals claimed credit for a sniper's wounding of two soldiers, while in another Provo attack, a Belfast police reservist was shot in the leg and shoulder. Later, tensions mounted dramatically when a teen-age Catholic boy was shot and killed by an army patrol after he twice refused an order to stop throwing gasoline bombs into a lumberyard. The I.R.A. retaliated by shooting down a soldier guarding a bomb-disposal unit. The bloodshed, said an I.R.A...
Great Story. Schiller played all those roles in cornering the Gilmore story. After reading about the case in early November, Schiller decided to sniff around Provo and immediately "became thoroughly convinced that this was a great story." He wangled permission to visit the prisoner and two weeks later signed a contract with Gilmore's uncle and lawyers because the murderer, says Schiller, "liked my style and sense of humor." Next he made a deal with Playboy and signed on Freelance Writer Barry Farrell to write Gilmore's story from 36 tapes of conversations with him. Schiller hopes...