Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...high cost of eating. Terry Arnall and Jerry Dizmang switched to a dog-food diet for every meal last week. "I'm tired of paying 99? for a pound of hamburger that just fries away," growled Arnall. "I'd rather pay $1.52 for a ten-pound sack of dog food...
Eugene White was the most effective performer for the Crimson, taking 6 out of 12 bouts, but none of the other Harvard starters would have been able to hack their way out of a paper sack had the need arisen. Freshman Eric Read, who replaced Ken Bartels after the senior had lost three of his first four contests, was as effective as White percentage wise, taking four of eight, but couldn't really boost the Crimson epee standing...
...Soviet-made arms at the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Bhutto charged that the arms had been smuggled in to aid a civilian coup against him, though he has offered no conclusive proof. He used the alleged plot as an excuse to oust the Iraqi ambassador, sack the two governors and send additional troops into Baluchistan...
What will President Georges Pompidou do if the Gaullists win next month's parliamentary elections? According to one highly imaginative scenario that political observers in Paris are currently debating, his first step will be to sack lackluster Premier Pierre Messmer, 56, and appoint in his stead Minister of Finance Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 47. As it happens, the suave, non-Gaullist Giscard is regarded as Pompidou's arch rival for the 1976 presidential elections. Last week he came in a close second to former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas in a nationwide popularity poll...
Broach a barrel of oysters, call for sack-be merry, mighty merry! To read Samuel Pepys again in this new edition is a celebration...