Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lone bright spot was sophomore swingman Don Fleming, who connected for 13 points in the opening frame and 17 points overall...
...included former U.S. Envoy Robert Strauss, were then driven to nearby St. Catherine's monastery. There the Egyptian President was shown the site where Moses, according to tradition, saw God in a burning bush; Sadat was given a three-foot tendril snipped from a plant growing on the spot. Upon his departure, the site of the flag-raising ceremonies swiftly emptied...
...realized their mistake, but over the next few days five crews from CBS and three from NBC were turned away at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. A producer in Iran estimated that each futile entry attempt cost $16,000. ABC's Dyk was later given an on-the-spot promotion to the rank of network TV correspondent, and the ABC World News Tonight ratings jumped by two full Nielsen points, or about 1.5 million households, over the previous two weeks. Moaned a rival producer in Tehran: "They milked it good." The Iranians eventually eased their entry restrictions, and each...
...many bought Iranian-style clothes to blend in. (One hot seller: a Korean-made khaki jacket favored by militant students.) Tensions subsided when Khomeini ordered his countrymen not to harm foreigners, but President Carter's suggestion at midweek that force might be used put correspondents on the spot once again. Back at the Inter Continental Hotel, the informal headquarters for foreign journalists, several Americans conspicuously began sitting with West Germans in the dining room and learning the words to O Canada. Others sang new verses of an old seasonal favorite that was becoming the anthem of the Tehran press...
Prince Philip picked the spot, a wooded glen on the grounds of Balmoral Castle. There, to mark the 32nd wedding anniversary of Britain's Queen and her husband, photographers recorded them with their three sons and their married daughter. Eleven royal dogs uncomposed some of the pictures as they flitted about the family feet. So, too, did First Grandchild Peter Phillips, 2, who distracted Mother Anne, 29, Uncles Charles, 31, Andrew, 19, and Edward, 15, and his grandmother with a lively game of Ring-a-ring of roses in which Master Peter dropped delightedly to the turf when...