Word: ran
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Barbara Pym was the Cinderella of the previous literary decade. Having achieved a minor reputation in England during the '50s, she could not find a publisher in the '60s when London took to swinging. All that changed in 1977, three years before her death, when the Times Literary Supplement ran a feature on neglected writers. Philip Larkin and David Cecil, both authors of mighty clout, independently singled out Pym. Overnight, it seemed, her books were not only available but on the best-seller lists, and she had the kind of loyal following that usually requires years to build...
Almost reflexively, the national media sprang into action. Network anchors ran roughshod over regularly scheduled programs, and network executives hastily rescheduled their programming to accommodate special reports...
Sixteen candidates ran for City Council almost two years ago, but only nine were seated. Once-defeated candidates like Richard P. Branson, Francis J. Budryk, John W. Downing, Jr., Bill Durette, Jr., and David A. Wylie are now the top contenders for the the last spot on the council...
...talk about a special trip to Charlotte, N.C., agents watched his Chevrolet Astro van head north toward Potomac, Md., instead. According to trailing agents, Walker drove evasively, checking to see if he was being followed. He did in fact shake his pursuers for nearly three hours, but they luckily ran across him near Poolesville, Md. On a lonely country road, the agents saw him park near a tree posted with a NO HUNTING sign. He briefly got out of his van, then drove away. They watched for nearly an hour. A Soviet embassy official, later identified as Aleksey Gavilovich Tkachenko...
DIED. John Ringling North, 81, flamboyant, fast-talking showman who from 1937 to '43 and from 1947 to '67 ran "The Greatest Show on Earth," the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, started by his five uncles in 1884; of a stroke; in Brussels. North took over the debt-spangled show after the death of his last uncle, John Ringling, and modernized it with such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the "vehemently vicious" 550-lb. gorilla that drew more than 40 million circusgoers. In 1956, North folded the big top and reincarnated the show for new arenas...