Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impelled, driven away from his desk and the study of a history he could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history...
...security guard, ready to turn back anybody who tries to enter without proper identification. Inside, five more guards equipped with walkie-talkies patrol the halls and cafeteria in the 60% Hispanic, 39% black school. Most classroom doors are locked after classes begin, and study halls, once a favorite spot for fights, have been shut down. The dingy lockers that formerly lined the corridors have been removed. Explains Principal Chester Wiggan: "The kids used to store drugs in them and set fires." Four trailers equipped as classrooms, in which pupils who are disciplinary problems study in isolation from the rest...
...fourth spot, John Stubbs won a knock-down drag-out affair when he took the deciding fifth game of his match 15-13 for a 3-2 victory. From then on, Harvard won 15 of 16 games as Clancy Nixon, Clark Bain, chuck Elliot and Jeff Secrest each shutout their opponents 3-0. Mitch Reese won his match in the sixth position...
Saturday the Crimson won 7-2 in a match in which four of the contests went the full five games. John Havens, in the top spot, and Clancy Nixon, int he sixth position, won by scores of 3-2, while John Stubbs, in the fourth slot, and Jeff Secrest, the number nine player, lost...
When CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn heard the news by phone in a doctor's office, he considered quitting on the spot, but thought it over for 24 hours and decided to stay. Pan Am was less charitable. Stormed William Seawell, the airline's chairman and chief executive: "We are outraged." The White House order, he said, "appears to have been dictated by the kind of political manipulation the President promised would not characterize his Administration...