Word: selections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could select any minority kid from the Detroit ghetto and, with the same opportunity, achieve the same results...
Frenzy over football-the sport's name outside the U.S. and Canada-has been building for two years, as 104 national teams battled through 251 games to select the finalists. The U.S., a member of the sponsoring Fédération Internationale de Football Association since 1913, was eliminated late in 1976. But as this week's opening ceremonies loomed, and some 20,000 soccer fanatics and journalists (4,000 will cover the event) began arriving in Buenos Aires, World Cup fever reached its quadrennial pitch...
...play is less polemical than comedic. It begins .with a family confab in Lady Britomart Undershaft's London town house. Long estranged from Andrew, the haughty lady (Betty Leighton) knows her select social turf, but that's all. Daughter Sarah (Janet Barkhouse) is enamored of a bean-brained fop (Briain Pet-chey) and Barbara is in love with Adolphus Cusins (Tom Kneebone), an impecunious teacher of Greek...
Saturday's Preakness victory on Affirmed is further proof, as much as any single race can be, of Cauthen's claim to be on the select list. At 1 3/16miles, the Preakness provides an honest test of the three-year-old Thoroughbred and an intense examination of the rider. The shorter course (1/16 of a mile less than the Derby and 5/16 of a mile less than the Belmont Stakes) demands the hot speed that is the first hallmark of the breed. A topflight field hurtling around Pimlico's tight turns leaves no margin for error by a jockey: fail...
...problem "is not all the Dean's fault," Bloomfield said, because departments tend to select professors in areas that are "more immediately glamorous," and may attract more students. However, "the administration has not been thoughtful in making sure the needed appointments are made," he added...