Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giovanna waits at the appointed spot but Daniel fails to appear. Later he telephones again, and his golden voice soars passionately in the aria Incontriamoci in Via Veneto (Meet me on the Via Veneto...
...American Navy officer, code-named "Ed" by his Soviet contact, slowed his car on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway near Woodbridge. On the side of the road, at a prearranged spot, he nervously dropped an orange juice container stuffed with documents describing the U.S. Navy's top secret method of tracking enemy submarines...
...where they had taken refuge. Bodies were left lying in the streets for days. The Zaïre news agency AZAP lamely tried to explain that "for purposes of identification and to facilitate the work of the press and the Red Cross, all bodies have been left at the spot where they were killed." As the stench became intolerable and the threat of a cholera epidemic grew, Red Cross officials recruited local workers, provided them with masks, and set up burial crews...
There is one bright spot for the Harvard oarsmen, however. A short week after its amazing victory in Worcester, the Eli eight fell to perennial pushover Dartmouth in Syracuse by a hefty two lengths. And just to make it interesting, the same Syracuse crew that Harvard creams every year trashed the Big Green later that same afternoon. So you figure...
...good-looking girls and guys. "Nobody gives a damn about the subject," says Joel Segal, senior vice president of the Ted Bates advertising agency. "The theme will be dopey broads and handsome men. Women mostly control the tube, and NBC's hope is that enough of them will spot one of their pretty men and stick around." Adds TV Consultant Mike Dann: "The trend is toward fantasy. There is more flesh exposed, but there really isn't much sex." It is a pattern that Silverman, who started it all when he was chief programmer...