Word: specters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nightmarish visions of last year's Cornell encounter at Watson (remember when the Big Red came from a 4-1 deficit to edge Harvard 5-4 in OT?) and the ever-haunting specter of the "letdown" the night after against hapless Colgate had most fans believing that the Crimson icemen would joint the mortal ranks of the once-beaten in the ECAC by Monday morning...
Dent in Power. Though a Democrat, Sprague had served as first assistant to Republican D.A. Arlen Specter from 1966 to 1974. He so admired his boss that he turned down an offer from Democratic leaders to run for D.A. in his own right. The Democrats then nominated F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, a successful criminal lawyer who trounced Specter in the election. Fitzpatrick wasted no time reorganizing the office. "After all, I campaigned against the operations of this office," he points out. One big change: assistant D.A.s were told they could come directly to the boss with problems. Previously they...
Even before the year began, stocks had taken one of their worst skids in history. Pressured by the Arab oil embargo, swelling uneasiness over Watergate and the worsening specter of inflation, the Dow lost some 180 points in 60 days toward the end of 1973. The widely followed indicator rose to its 1974 high of 892 in March, then began a perilous saw-toothed decline that seemed almost irreversible (see chart...
...newspaper workers. In recent weeks, however, an N.U.J. drive against the high-profit, low-wage provincial papers outside London has threatened to change that situation. What began as a pay dispute on the "provincials" has ballooned into a national row over newspaper economics, editors' rights and the specter of censorship by labor...
...state revenue, the casino idea was supported by Atlantic City businessmen who were hoping that the roulette wheel would restore the seaside resort's fading image. But a citizens' group calling itself Casinos-No Dice, backed by state legislators, law-enforcement officials and clergymen, raised the specter of an invasion of the casinos by organized crime. Though the pro-casino forces outspent Casinos-No Dice by some 20 to 1 and early opinion polls showed the measure winning easily, it was voted down 2 to 1. Muttered one Atlantic City promoter: "I guess we'll have...