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Word: rans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crime of the Week." The commission's "Crime Stoppers" program aired a re-enactment of the robbery over the evening news and offered $1,000 for information leading to the man's arrest. Radio stations followed up with 30-second spots and the Tulsa Tribune ran a daily story on the crime throughout the week. The reward and the publicity worked: within 24 hours an anonymous tipster helped police identify the culprit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Crime Stoppers | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

Mayman's office also sponsors Learning from Performers, a program that brings guest artists to Harvard to work with students on a personal level. Last year the director of Broadway's Pacific Overtures ran a three part seminar with 15 students interested in drama. Students saw the play worked through its various stages, and participated on discussions with the director about the changes. This year, the program will bring playwright Arthur Miller and musician Jonnie Green to Harvard, among others...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Putting Art in the Liberal Arts | 9/14/1979 | See Source »

ANALYSTS SAY Sen. Joseph Timilty, whose challenge to White has become a painful exercise in redundancy, will run second to White in the preliminary. Timilty, who presided over President Carter's now-defunct National Commission of Neighborhoods and ran Carter through Pennsylvania, is after the mayor's scalp for the third time. He compares the White administration to a loaf of stale bread, believes in tax cuts, limiting condominium conversion along the lines of the Cambridge plan and the "neighborhood movement." What the neighborhood movement is, nobody, least of all the senator's staff, can put his finger on, although...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Everybody Wants to Be Mayor | 9/13/1979 | See Source »

...English people the continuing occupation of our country." The assassination of Lord Mountbatten, a patriarchal figure who seemed as much a part of the public life of Britain as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, sent shock waves of anguish and indignation through Britain and Ireland. "His life ran like a golden thread of inspiration and service to his country throughout this century," said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as she joined the nation in mourning. In India, where Mountbatten had helped fashion the subcontinent's independence in 1947, a week of mourning was declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Nation Mourns Its Loss | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

...academy on the Isle of Wight. He was soon seared by an event that is thought to have directed the course of his life: as World War I broke out his father was hounded by anti-German hysteria and forced to resign as First Sea Lord. The tears that ran down the cadet's face, according to a biographer, instilled a burning ambition to rise in the military establishment and avenge Prince Louis' humiliation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Man Who Was Larger Than Life | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

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