Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special soft spot for him because he had said that Cry, the Beloved < Country was the only Christian novel that he was ever able to read. I heard him again in 1955, at the Jubilee of Kent School, Connecticut. He had had a stroke, and delivered his paper sitting down, hiding his powerless left hand under his right. His audience was deeply affected, for they were witnessing a triumph of mind (or soul) over matter. And the mind was as clear as ever...
Naples police traced the rental car to Junzo Okudaira, 39, a notorious member of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist organization with ties to radical groups in Lebanon. Witnesses said a man resembling Okudaira drove the car past the USO club several times looking for a parking spot. When he found one, he left the auto in a hurry. Shortly afterward it exploded. A Japanese woman accomplice was also being sought...
Blessed with incumbency and lack of a serious challenge from the left, Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, 71, easily captured the front runner's spot in this year's French presidential campaign. The real contest leading up to the first round of voting on April 24 was between his two conservative opponents, Premier Jacques Chirac and former Premier Raymond Barre, who were running neck and neck in the polls as recently as February. This week the campaign moves into its final phase, during which the release of new voter surveys is forbidden. The biggest news in the flurry of last-minute...
...opened talks with the hijackers the day the plane landed. At one point, the jetliner was asked to taxi away from the airport terminal as a security measure while a plane carrying Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda landed. After the African leader departed, Flight 422 moved back to its old spot. Algerian sources blamed Kuwait's "intransigent" refusal to discuss the 17 jailed terrorists for the lack of progress in the talks. But Kuwait, which sent a delegation headed by Sa'ud Mohammed al-Usaymi, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, insisted the radicals would not be released...
...first thing that must be understood is that there are two separate playing fields, with completely different rules, for street musicians in Harvard Square. First, there is the Harvard-owned plaza adjacent to Au Bon Pain. Performance permits for this spot are given out by Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE) and include permission to use amplification. Second, there is the Cambridge city property along Brattle Street. Performance permits for these spots are given out by the Cambridge Director of Traffic and Parking (DTP) and explicitly forbid the use of amplification. ["A performer may not use electric or electronic amplification...