Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open letter, warning that the Soviets were "heading for superiority, not parity, in the military arena," ran a full page in the New York Times last week and was signed by 178 retired generals and admirals. Among them: Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr., former Chief of Naval Operations; General Albert C. Wedemeyer, China theater commander in World War II; Major General George J. Keegan Jr., former Air Force chief of intelligence. *The CIA estimates it at more like 11% to 15% of G.N.P. *A reference to Mao's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, and three other high officials who sought...
...fringe candidates. On the left, Michael Harrington, one of the founders and national chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and author of The Other America (partly responsible for arousing the public consciousness of remaining widespread American poverty that led to Johnson's War on Poverty), almost ran. He decided he couldn't get up enough money to make it respectable or worth the time and effort, and didn't feel like going the Eugene Debs self-martyr route. Of course, there is Lyndon H. Larouche...
Leslie Sims bested Cathy Rice in the 60, just catching her teammate at the wire despite their identical times of 7.6 seconds. Becky Rogers then outlasted Therese Sellers in the 880, as she ran the half mile in 2:22.6 to Sellers...
When Fordham held on the upset Columbia, 76-75, it was a personal vindication for Penders, who had been criticized for abandoning a potential Ivy championship team. After Fordham's win, the Post ran the headline "Troubled Columbia Dealt Death Blow" and the Columbia Spectator pronounced "Columbia Basketball Died Last Night...
...animals in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy inexplicably went berserk. Dogs began barking and howling, cats ran into the streets, and hens refused to roost. Mice and rats scurried out of their hiding places and ran in circles. Horses and cows fidgeted in their stalls. Pet birds flapped their wings and emitted agonizing calls, almost as if they sensed what was about to occur. At 9 o'clock that night, the Friuli area was jolted by a major earthquake...