Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that offer protection for multinational executives and their plants. The CIA is trying to help its cashiered officers, instructing them in how to write a résumé without explaining in detail that a previous job, for example, was to lead airborne missions that used infrared devices to spot the cooking pots of Che Guevara's guerrillas in Bolivia. Concludes one angry agent: "A lot of guys will wind up selling real estate...
...second mile Sullivan had worked her way past the 20th spot and Pappy Hunt was getting excited. He knew that she was within reach of the magic top 15 needed for All-American honors...
Captain Nancy Cooper led the way for Radcliffe, outdueling the Rhode Island number one position, two bouts to none. Deborah Sze, Celine Larkin and Leslie Feter also touched home with perfect scores at 4-0, 4-0 and 2-0. Mary Holland won in the fourth spot...
Bernadette Drankowski won in the top J.V. spot, 4-0. Captain Cooper praised her performance as "a great comeback from last year...
Concern over Israel also brought back traditional Jewish anxieties over the future of the "race," and with a vengeance. With the reaffirmation of Jewish ethnicity that ensued, as Patterson puts it, "the Jewish intellectual was on the spot." For Patterson, the apostacy of the Jewish liberal intellectuals who for years have made Commentary one of the most respected liberal organs in the country best exemplifies the reaction of the Jewish intelligentsia to this crisis: a distressing turn rightward and the abandonment of their courageous conviction that all issues should be open to tough, non-partisan intellectual scrutiny in favor...