Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within the month Carter ran into the Binghams in Washington and reported: "I have only three chapters to go and I have been underlining." Now he is finished...
...taxis left to her by her husband. One cab was hijacked and burned out by black youths at the beginning of the Soweto disturbances in June. Last week, fearful of breaking the boycott, she kept her remaining taxis at home. But at midweek a youth, fleeing a Zulu gang, ran through the garden of her home. The enraged Zulus, thinking she had given him refuge, kicked down her front door, smashed her furniture and windows, and then hacked and smashed her two cabs parked outside. "This is the end," she said. "Between the Zulu mobs, the students, the tsotsis [hoodlums...
...teams. This year the competition on and off the court, and the consequent bickering, grew so hot and ludicrous that many veteran players withdrew from the game. Said the program's coordinator, a woman: "They couldn't pay me to do this job again." Efforts to psych the opposition ran all the way from intentional on-court talking (and even smoking) to giving wrong driving directions to teams headed for a remote court, so that the enemy would be more than 20 minutes late and thus forfeit the match. Off-putting snide remarks, of the sort now openly urged...
Except the nation never saw it. CBS's Lesley Stahl ran up, shouting "Mister, who are you?" and other network reporters witnessed Ellis' rage. But the TV cameras had already homed in on the anchor men for closing comments. Much of the week was like that. In spectacular contrast to last month's Democratic Convention, the early part of the Republican gathering was so laced with suspense, color, passion and occasional humor that the show seen on the tube was far hotter than a made-for-television movie...
...Texas, the game of political names calls for a Yarborough, a cognomen that has meant liberal votes in the Lone Star State for a generation. Ralph Yarborough, 73, was in the Senate from 1957 to 1971. Another Yarborough, Donald H., 50, a Houston lawyer and no relation, ran unsuccessfully three times for Governor and almost beat John Connally...