Word: summer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SUMMER OF '49 by David Halberstam (Morrow; $21.95). A quirky and informal account of the American League pennant race between the Red Sox and the Yankees deepens into a nostalgic memoir of a vanishing era, when people listened to the radio, traveled by train and went around the corner to see a movie...
...fights her battles on the front pages, and occasionally face to face, with men she believes have betrayed Nicaragua. In the summer of 1987, Ortega signed a Central American peace plan proposed by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez. Among other things, the plan required each of the five participating countries to show that it had a free press. Ortega dispatched an emissary to tell Chamorro that La Prensa, then still banned, could reopen -- subject to government censorship. "I told him I wasn't interested," says Dona Violeta. "He became very nervous and explained to me that if La Prensa...
While other graduating scholar-athletes have already hung up the spikes or skates, Kaplan continues to train for the Maccabiah Games, which will take place in Israel this summer. As a member of the United States delegation to what is often called the Jewish Olympics, Kaplan will spend three weeks with 4000 athletes from 41 nations...
January 20: Harvard Stadium is named as a site for Olympic soccer games in the summer...
...what have students gained if their education was solely derived from friends, roommates or clubs. They could get the same experience from a new job and home, any other college or any good summer camp. Why go to Harvard and waste money, if all you seek is social experience...