Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have so many exposed so much to so many. In one short week the naked dash has achieved Olympian, if not exactly Olympic proportions (see MODERN LIVING). Already those first lonely streakers across dark and isolated campuses seem the fusty pioneers of a misty age. The streaking contagion has spread to every corner of the U.S., spilled across to Europe, gingerly moved out ward in both directions on the age ladder, infected a still minority but growing number of women. What began as a tentative titter at the edge of the national awareness has become one great, good-natured American...
...gasoline-allocation program was supposed to spread the shortage evenly. Instead, some states like Georgia have been awash in fuel, while others, especially on the West Coast and in the Northeast, have had to impose local rationing. Maryland filed an unsuccessful suit against the program, and New Jersey is considering suing also...
Remarks by coach Munro, published recently in The Crimson, regarding the reasons for his resignation as varsity soccer coach indicate that the values of professional sports, until recently confined at the college level to football or, if in other sports, to other parts of the country, have spread to Harvard soccer. As someone who, in his four years of playing soccer at Harvard in the 1960s, never was on a team that went to the NCAAs, I believe in winning. But I also believe, as do most Harvard soccer alumni I have spoken to, including the most talented, that...
Next day the rebels seized three of the four senior generals whom Haile Selassie had sent to Asmara to negotiate a compromise, and threatened to keep them hostage until the government agreed to all their demands. Meanwhile the mutiny spread until it included nearly all of the country's 47,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen...
...battle consistently favored the strikers. When the NLRB ruled early last month that Farah must let union organizers enter his plants (TIME, Feb. 11), he apparently decided that further resistance was futile. He permitted a poll, and 67% of Farah's workers voted for the union. Indeed, stories spread that Willie quietly passed word to the workers that he would not be disappointed to see the union win in order to end the strike. A company official claims that the majority of the workers were opposed to the union but went along out of loyalty to Farah. One union...