Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerry Dietz of the New York Athletic Club narrowly defeated Harvardian Greg Stone in the elite singles competition, an affair in which Stone's mentor, Coach Parker, also participated. Stone and Tom Wood earlier that day placed second ahead of Dietz and Larry Klecatsky, both leading American oarsman, in the double sculls, which was won by Riverside Boat Club...
...Jenny Stone and Mleczko had notched first-half goals to give the Crimson a 2-1 lead, but the home-standing Green had knotted the score in the final seconds before halftime...
...aide, Roger Knapp, chose TWA. In the first-class compartment, the Agriculture Secretary spied Singers Pat Boone and Sonny Bono, and John Dean, the former White House counsel who had blown the whistle on Richard Nixon and had just worked the convention as a writer for Rolling Stone. A gregarious man who likes to flaunt his snappy country-and often barnyard-sense of humor, Butz, 67, wandered over to make idle conversation, after Knapp had warned him that Dean was now a reporter...
After some indecision, Dean used the line in Rolling Stone, attributing it to an unnamed Cabinet officer. But New Times magazine enterprisingly sleuthed out Butz's identity by checking the itineraries of all Cabinet members. The publication informed the Secretary's office on Tuesday, Sept. 28, that it was planning to print his name. Butz mulled over the problem until Thursday, before tipping off the White House. On Friday morning he found himself on the carpet in front of an exasperated Gerald Ford...
...stretching from Tibet to Sinkiang and Inner Mongolia, across the Takla Makan and Gobi deserts to the beginning of the Great Wall of China (see map page 51). The historic line against invaders is being built anew today. This time the Great Wall of China is not bricks and stone but people and new industry. The borderlands are being developed as a buffer to protect the inner core of China, the land of the Han people...