Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They are taken to ports where they hand over the rest of the exit price, then are ferried to a ship just outside Vietnamese territorial waters. At least two such vessels have been used. One is the Hai Hong, the other a 900-ton coaster, the Southern Cross, which ran aground in Indonesian waters last Sept. 21 carrying more than 1,200 passengers...
...Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, secrecy was a lifelong obsession. Born Mohammed Ben Brahim Boukharouba, he borrowed a nom de guerre from an Algerian village during the revolution against France and kept it ever since. If his movements were mysterious, so was the way in Boumedienne which he ran his country for 13 years. Last week the mystery continued as Boumedienne, 53, with a blood clot on the brain, lay near death in an Algiers hospital...
...long courted by many other suitors, was willing to sell to Avon not only because the price was ripe?$104 million in all?but also because he was promised that he could continue to run Tiffany as an independent fiefdom. Says Hoving: "Charles Tiffany, who founded the company, ran it until he was 92, so I'm going to try to beat his record and run it until I'm 93, God willing...
Penn State did all this, and still remained the Avis of big-time college football. It was a frequent also-ran in the weekly A.P. and U.P.I, polls of sportswriters and coaches, but never was it No. 1. This year, however, the men from State College, Pa., finally made it to the top -first in all the polls and, after last week's 17-10 win over intrastate rival Pittsburgh, the only major unbeaten team left in the nation...
...domestic balancing act. Having already divorced the former Ginette Lery in September, Sir Jimmy whisked Lady Annabel Birley off for a private wedding ceremony-in Paris of all places. When the couple left Goldsmith's Paris office, Daily Express Photographer Bill Lovelace snapped some pictures. Sir Jimmy ran at him "like a mad bull," grabbed his camera, then dragged Lovelace inside and tore ? out the film. Gossip columnists, the press lord groused later, "are diseases like the flu, and everyone is subject to them." Well, almost everyone...