Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughters three years later to settle in Milwaukee. As a teenager, Golda was already interested in politics, encouraged by the example of her elder sister Sheyna. Intent on becoming a schoolteacher, Golda ran away from home to live with her sister in Denver. There she married a mild, intellectual sign painter, Morris Myerson, whom she argued into emigrating to Palestine in 1921. They lived for two years in a kibbutz (where Golda promptly took over and reorganized the communal kitchen), then moved to Tel Aviv and later Jerusalem, where their two children, Menachem and Sarah, were born. But she soon...
...World countries?that the world press should be tightly controlled?SWAPO leaders inside Namibia privately expressed a belief that the presence of foreign reporters gave them some protection during the campaign, though not too much. Within full view of one press group, police attacked and badly beat up a sign-carrying SWAPO demonstrator...
...induce Bergerac to switch companies, Revson offered him one of the lushest deals hi corporate history: a $1.5 million bonus just to sign, plus $325,000 a year guaranteed, plus some incentive payments geared to the growth of sales and profits. Last year Bergerac collected $794,000. The deal for a while caused the financial press to call Bergerac by the spectacularly inappropriate nickname of "Catfish," after Catfish Hunter, the pitcher whom the Yankees signed to another seven-figure contract at about the same time. Oddly, in Brussels, Bergerac presented himself as an American executive called Mike; back...
...slaughter on Sixth Avenue, Manhattan's Network Row, was more a sign of desperation than desire, however, and the truth of the matter is that Silverman had only two choices: to kill the shows one by one or en masse. Freddie chose the latter, and off will go Lifeline, Sword of Justice, Dick Clark's Live Wednesday, Eddie Capra Mysteries, Grandpa Goes to Washington, Who's Watching the Kids? and David Cassidy-Man Under Cover. An old show, Project U.F.O. will also be dropped. Two programs, W.E.B. and Waverly Wonders had earlier been dispatched to Silverman Hill...
CRUEL WORLD read the sign on George Lee ("Sparky") Anderson's wall. It was just a joke until last week, when Anderson was summarily fired from his job of nine seasons as manager of the Cincinnati Reds. Anderson, 44, the most successful major league manager of the decade, led his team to four pennants and two World Series victories (1975 and 1976). But for the past two seasons the Reds have finished behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West. "We are determined to set a higher standard," said Reds President Dick Wagner in explanation...