Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LEROY JENKINS, who will perform at Jonathan Swift's next Monday and Tuesday on a double bill with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, belongs to an odd generation of musicians who have performed and recorded a large body of influential music without ever reaching beyond a narrow, rather cultish audience. The 47-year-old violinist has been a primary member of the Creative Construction Company and the Revolutionary Ensemble, two groups that have provided important alternatives to the stale conventions of the post-Coltrane New York avant-garde. All the same, Jenkins is hardly a household word, even...
Trailing 11-0 just one minute into the second half, J.V. Coach Loyal Park sent in the starting backfield for the first time. Quarterback Burke St. John wasted no time, hitting Jellison with a 35-yard pass. The swift Jellison then turned and sped 30 yards for the touchdown. Minutes later he took the ball on a sweep and scored again from the Harvard 40. The St. John to Jellison connection carried the younger smaller squad to a 22-11 victory...
...identities of most of them gradually became known. Among them were political officers, Marines, code clerks, secretaries, the kinds of people who staff American embassies throughout the world. Tomseth, the second in command, was the ranking captive. Those held included Mike Holland, the burly security chief; Ann Swift, an efficient, Farsi-speaking officer who during the takeover tried over and over to reach the acting Defense Minister; Mike Matrinko, who was a consul in Tabriz last spring when the mission was overrun by revolutionaries; and John Graves, the bearded public affairs officer. Charge
From these strongholds the guerrillas fan out across the country for swift strikes against Vietnamese army outposts and supply routes. One broadcast by a clandestine Khmer Rouge radio station ?probably located in China's Yunnan province?claimed that several Cuban and Soviet advisers had been killed in a Phnom-Penh airport ambush...
...also mysterious, pervasive and, in the cold eyes of Western policymakers, dangerous and disruptive to current at tempts to combat inflation. Supermoney is the immense and swift-moving pool of currencies deposited in banks outside their home countries- and thus out of the control of any government. No body knows the total, but estimates run to $750 billion in ''offshore'' dollars and $250 billion in German marks and other, mostly European, money...