Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all the advanced equipment, Jennifer was a nerve-racking job for the Glomar's crew of about 400. The racking began early on, when the crewmen were told what the ship's real mission was and given secrecy pledges to sign. Says one crewman: "They told us that they were the same kind of documents Daniel Ellsberg had signed." During the lift of the sub, the ship heaved and groaned so much that some feared it would tear apart. Others fretted about the Soviet spy trawlers that were frequently spotted. Says Joe Rodriguez, who was recruited...
...what the University has long considered a high crime area. The University's long-standing contention that the area near Harvard and Ware Streets is unsafe for women students--which until this year served as an excuse for keeping the Union Dorms single-sex--prompted over 60 students to sign a petition requesting the installation of iron bars on the buildings first floor windows...
Should the Dallas club sign him, Acorn does not plan to pursue a long-term career in professional soccer. He said that any contract he signed with the Tornados would not be lucrative, but that playing pro soccer, even for a short time, would be the fulfillment of a life-long dream...
Less than a year ago, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was under severe attack from "rejectionist" Arabs for signing the second Sinai accord with Israel. Now that there is new talk about peace initiatives in the Middle East, the rejectionists have become isolated, and Sadat has emerged anew as a moderate Arab statesman with clout. At home, he feels secure enough to have authorized the formation of political parties. In an interview last week with TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn, Sadat declared that he was ready to sign a formal document ending the state of belligerency with Israel...
...Like Duchamp, he was given to embedding a kind of ironic lechery in his images?the supreme example being Monogram, 1959. Monogram remains the most notorious of Rauschenberg's combines: a stuffed Angora goat, girdled with a tire. The title is self-fulfilling?it is Rauschenberg's monogram, the sign by which he is best known?but why did it become so famous? Partly because of its unacknowledged life as a powerful sexual fetish. The lust of the goat, as William Blake remarked in a somewhat different context, is the bounty of God, and Monogram is an image of copulation...