Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people on State Street thought that Finnegan might pull something off, if only because his name is not White or Timilty. But Finnegan is currently weighing in with about 10 or 15 per cent of the preliminary vote. His candidacy wasn't helped much, of course, by disclosures this summer that he was getting $20,000 a year as a lobbyist fot the tobacco industry. Finnegan believes in capital punishment (Why is capital punishment an issue in a municipal election? Because this is Boston), mandatory sentencing and rent control. Sometimes he even sounds like Gov. Edward J. King, promising...
They seem adrift on a lazy summer outing, but Activists Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem are actually firing some shots across someone else's bow. The two rented a rowboat in New York City's Central Park in order to dramatize, according to Mrs. Abzug, the fact "that while President Carter was showboating on the Mississippi, Americans were left up the creek in the fight against rising prices." To itemize that metaphor, the two sailors paid only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women...
...pinning its big hopes on such stale items as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (from the same folks who launched the crash-landed Battlestar Galactica) and From Here to Eternity (a spin-off of a miniseries). As Johnny Carson put it in an opening monologue this summer, "The NBC peacock looked at the fall schedule-and he's not so proud...
District 65, Distributive Workers of America, struck for 19 days last spring to gain recognition. After summer-long negotiations proved unsatisfactory, the local voted to strike Friday...
...guides will be more carefully chosen this year," Arthur J. Kyriazis '80-2, an organizer of SHS, said earlier this summer. Last year more than 250 upperclassmen guided, advised and informally showed Harvard to all incoming freshmen who wanted to participate in the program...