Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yorty, 59, realized that the runoff would finish him unless he could find a transcendent issue that would not only bring out his normal conservative constituency in heavy numbers but would also chip at Bradley's strength in the center. His own record after eight years was not much to boast about. Routine city services operate efficiently enough, and the L.A. area has enjoyed a dramatic economic expansion. However, with power in Los Angeles fragmented between city and county government, Yorty has never attempted to exercise the strong and dynamic leadership that any major city needs. Furthermore, instances...
...serving the fourth year of a five-year sentence at hard labor for "slandering the Soviet state" in his short stories that were published abroad. Daniel is in a labor camp at Potma in the Volga basin, along with Fellow Writer Aleksandr Ginzburg, whose crime was compiling a record of the February 1966 trial of Daniel and Writer Andrei Sinyavsky (who is serving his seven-year sentence in another part of the same camp, also for "slandering the state...
...fact, China has been involved less dramatically outside its borders than the Soviet Union, which has Hungary and Czechoslovakia on its record, to say nothing of the Middle East arms race and the mounting of missiles in Cuba. On the other hand, China has consistently posed a subversive threat to its neighbors, with the propagation of a militant revolutionary doctrine that generally scorns peaceful coexistence with "imperialists." Peking backs so-called national liberation movements from Thailand to Mozambique...
...however, as he finished in sixth place in the shot put after being a pre-meet favorite in the event. His 55 ft. 6 1/4 in. toss was more than four feet less than his 59 ft. 8 1/4 in. heave earlier this spring which set a Harvard outdoor record...
Frank Champi, a former Harvard record-holder in the Javelin, threw the spear 225 ft. 5 in. Friday for a fourth place finish. The present record-holder, sophomore Richie Szaro, did not participate in the meet...