Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunny Monday morning in Levittown, Long Island, teen-agers ran out of the small ranch houses and Cape Cods, darting through carports, and leaving back doors swinging and slamming. Some dashed through the streets, shouting, and others exuberantly made haste on their skateboards. One long-haired boy hustled along to the tune of a blaring radio. Their destination? MacArthur High School, a sprawling, two-story brick building with bright turquoise trim, an All-American high school right down to its official colors: red, white and blue. Bouncing" with excitement, the youngsters converged in the schoolyard and waited anxiously...
Lyndon Johnson ran the Senate. Even in the House of Representatives, where the dying seniority system once brought an excessive stability, only two committee chairmen will have held their positions for more than six years, and seven committees are likely to select new chairmen...
...Americans under 45 who seemed destined to be national leaders (TIME, July 15, 1974). They included educators, businessmen, lawyers, scientists and a number of men and women who had embarked upon-or were about to begin -political careers. In this month's election, 22 of them ran for high public office and all but three of them...
Only three of TIME'S young leaders ran for office and lost: Democrat Dick Clark, who sought re-election to the Senate from Iowa; Democrat Andrew Miller, in the Senate race in Virginia; and Democrat Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, in the race for California attorney general. The fact that only three were defeated may be a sign that leadership is regaining a stability that has seemed to be missing in the years since Richard Nixon's resignation...
Jones quit and led the exodus to Guyana after New West magazine last year ran an expose of concentration camp conditions within the communes. According to reports, members were punished for smoking, fraternizing with outsiders or acting like "male chauvinist pigs." They were paddled as many as 100 times by the "Board of Education," a thick plank, and a microphone was placed near the mouths of victims to amplify screams for the congregation. Jones, who said he could raise the dead, also staged healing rites in which he claimed to pull cancerous organs from ill people; what...