Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since Albert Camus's death in a 1960 car crash, these images have totally obscured the writer. Journalist Herbert R. Lottman's voluminous work attempts to sweep away rumor and legend in the hope that a man will emerge. But Camus is much too elusive for mere biography. After 753 pages, the subject seems as melodramatic in death as he was in life...
...satellite nations. Its own Asian republics are drawn toward the new China-Japan co-prosperity sphere. Embarrassing riots in Poland convince Kremlin hard-liners that they must re-establish Soviet credibility by force. The decision is made to stir up fighting in black Africa, invade Yugoslavia and then sweep across West Germany to a stop-line at the Rhine. After this humiliation is imposed on the West, negotiations will be demanded of the new President of the U.S., a Republican who beats Walter Mondale...
Harvard came back to outduel undefeated Springfield, 15-11, in the first of the three-game semifinal match; but the host team--which eventually went on to win the tourney with a sweep over Yale in the finals--snapped back and eliminated Harvard...
Practical problems make a constitutional amendment a poor instrument for austerity-mongers. Nonetheless, national polls show that about two-thirds of the country favors one. California sent a wave of tax-cutting and spending cutbacks rippling across the states last year, and Americans apparently want it to sweep through Washington as well. Of course, nobody answers the question of how states could balance their budgets without the billions of dollars in aid the federal government hands them each year. People know only that inflation hurts, and conservative economists and groups like the National Taxpayers Union tell them that federal deficit...
Bobby Hackett is expected to sweep three freestyle events, as he did last year when he was named Performer of the Meet. Each day the prelims begin at noon, and the finals start at 7:30 p.m. The meet will last from Thursday until Saturday; tickets for the finals each evening will cost undergraduates $1 when they present their bursar's card at the door...