Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baked orchards of Yuba City. Calif.-his lawyer tried a stunning tactic. Defense Attorney Richard Hawk. 45. offered hardly any defense at all. Though he questioned a few of the 116 witnesses summoned by the prosecution, he called none himself and his summation lasted a bare seven minutes. In spite of that, the jury's first vote was 7 to 5 for acquittal, and it took a total of 16 ballots and 46 hours to find the Mexican-born Corona, now 44, guilty on all 25 murder counts...
SOME TIME DURING the night of September 13, 1974, an unseen group of bucket-bearing revolutionaries plastered every flat surface in downtown Luanda, the capital of Angola, with signs bearing the gold star symbol of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). They did it in spite of the official 2 a.m. curfew imposed by the Portuguese Army, who were everywhere in their clattering three-man jeeps with the American-made .50-caliber machine-guns peeking out over the windshields. It's possible that the Portuguese looked the other way--after their bitter 15-year guerrilla war against...
...MOST DRASTIC attacks are, of course, on student freedom to choose an academic program. The Core Curriculum, rushed through with eleven minutes of debate on the proposal itself, and passed in spite of strong and broad-based student opposition, is the most overwhelming example. One of the greatest gains made by students in recent years was the explosion in the number of courses; the diversity of choice put the structure of the student's program very much in the student's hands. The attack on that diversity began well before the core was proposed with such tactics as denying...
...meet with MIT and Bates when he rattled off a 75 at Stow Acres. A 76 earned him second place in the Big Three match with Yale and Princeton, one shot behind teammate Glenn Alexander. He was medalist in a match with Providence and UMass with a 75 in spite of five three-putt greens...
...close as Lugano, just across the border in Switzerland. For many, the question is not so much the destination as it is how to get out of Italy with the means of supporting themselves in the manner to which they would like to become reaccustomed. Most succeed in spite of the law forbidding Italian residents to take more than $580 in lire out of the country. But authorities have started cracking down. Last month Actress Sophia Loren and her husband, Producer Carlo Ponti, were charged with having illegally transferred several million dollars abroad...