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Word: seniors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rabbi Ben Ezra. "The best is yet to be." Meyer Lansky, 75, the Russian-born Methuselah of the underworld, once directed Murder, Inc., held the Mafia franchise for Havana and brought organized gambling to the Bahamas; but he has survived all to become a little old Miami Beach senior citizen. Now he lives quietly, Lansky told a visitor from the Miami News, enjoying a complete absence of memory ("There is no such thing as organized crime"). What does he do with his spare time? Well, he reads: "Lately, philosophy-just now I'm reading Spinoza." One might wonder what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Better Late Than Never | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...billion, it controls the Union First National Bank of Washington and close to a dozen other banks in Maryland and Virginia. At a meeting set up by Armand Hammer, who is chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a Financial General board member, Lance told the bank's senior officers he was acting for the London-based Bank of Credit & Commerce International, which specializes in managing Arab funds. At week's end, a group of Financial General shareholders filed suit accusing Lance of engaging in "an unlawful conspiracy secretly to acquire control" and asked Washington District Court to block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Born-Again Bert | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...room which contained penguin clones and one self-proclaimed "critic" in a tan polyester suit. 6) Shortly after the second joking reference was made to McDonald's "fallen arches," I realized that I had already logged more time in the theater that evening than I had spent on my senior thesis all semester. 7) The clincher came when I ran into two friends--Janice, with whom I had gone to high school, and Marguerite, her current roommate--who had paid $20 each to catch a glimpse of Richard Dreyfuss, and a taste of what Harvard theater was all about. They...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The 130th Clone | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...Last semester, we were able to accept both commuters and transfers," said Christopher M. Jedrey, senior tutor at Lowell House, which accepted five transfer students yesterday. "But fourteen returning students cut the number we could accept," he added...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Housing Transfers Rise 50 Per Cent | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

Leverett House accepted seven transfer students, although last semester it could not accomodate any, Elisabeth Mahnke, the senior tutor said yesterday...

Author: By Theodore S. Chandler, | Title: Housing Transfers Rise 50 Per Cent | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

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