Word: sweep
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...Central America, the main aim of the CBI is to fight Marxist-led subversion and insurgency. But in the 2,000-mile-long sweep of islands that dapple the Caribbean Sea, the problems are very different. The area's twelve sovereign nations, nine of which have become independent since 1961, face poverty, high unemployment, crippling debt and declining income from their few marketable commodities. TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter and Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited much of the archipelago and interviewed its worried leaders. Their report...
Harvard's brightest of moment of the afternoon came two events later when senior Dwayne Jones broke the University 440-yard record with a time of 48.64, topping the old mark by a tenth of a second and leading the way to a Crimson sweep Freshman Chris. Aldridge took second and sophomore Jim Herberich finished third...
Barnes fell to Co-Captain Ted Chappell in Harvard's sweep of the 500 free, but their 4.32.08 and 4.37.31 ranked as the second and third top times in the region...
...wisdom can rescue them from themselves ... This familiar tale is saved from banality by the panoramic artwork of Jorg Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull's-eye views of the islands seem three-dimensional, and the huge pictures of ancient machinery and people have a Shakespearean sweep. "He always worked a triple-hinged surprise/ To end the scene and make one rub his eyes." So wrote Poet Vachel Lindsay about the master of the trick ending, O. Henry. None of his stories has received more notice than The Gift of the Magi (Neugebauer; $11.95); none is more appropriate...
Although Co-Captain Gus Udo led a sweep of the triple jump and AI Quintero took first while setting a new personal record in the weight throw, the rest of the field events were almost all Army's. The points they garnered on the field were too much for the Crimson to overcome when the running events began, and an Army sweep of the 1500 certainly did not help Harvard's cause...