Word: soled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hereby propose a national campaign to boycott next year's Super Sunday at the Super Bowl, [Jan. 16]. For too long have we faithful fans gobbled up hours of insipid, rampant commercialism for the sole pleasure of watching poorly played, overprogrammed games. It was televised not out of love for the game, but so that huge corporations could beam down their benevolent images upon us. From now on, either we boycott it or they must pay us to watch...
Jerusalem, 1976: The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church makes his pilgrimage from Moscow to the Russian Orthodox Church in Israel, the sole building in that country allowed to remain in Soviet hands after Israel's 1967 break with the U.S.S.R. Accompanying the Patriarch on his mission, as usual, is a squad of KGB agents bearing communications equipment and funds for local agents. Vladimir Ribakov, the administrative manager of the church in Jerusalem, is the KGB's chief agent in Israel...
...opening night began with an unusual ceremony. As the audience rose quietly to its feet, a sole trumpeter onstage played first the Soviet national anthem and then that of the U.S. This salute to theatrical detente came about through the zealous effort of Nina Vance, founder and longtime head of Houston's Alley Theater. On a cultural exchange mission to the U.S.S.R. in May 1977, Vance was particularly impressed by Mikhail Roschin's Echelon and the way in which it was directed by Galina Volchek, head of Moscow's Sovremennik Theater and a noted actress as well...
...largest single consumer of rhesus monkeys in the U.S., as foreseen in the 1955 treaty, is the polio-vaccine testing program. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y., now the sole U.S. manufacturer of the vaccine, grows the Sabin attenuated virus strains in cultures of African green monkey kidney cells. Samples of each batch of vaccine (currently totaling about 25 million doses a year) are then injected into the brain cavities or spinal columns of 45 rhesus monkeys. After three weeks of clinical observation, the animals are "sacrificed"-killed humanely by an overdose of sodium pentothal-so that their nervous tissues...
Brosens is a quietly intense, emotional player, a scrambler who should have an edge over Havens in terms of court position. Havens is equally intense, a hard hitter whose sole weakness may be his mobility...