Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorist attack was the third effort by Palestinians to infiltrate Israel within a week, and Israelis were enraged at the latest civilian deaths. At the funeral for the Nahariya victims, Premier Menachem Begin declared: "A fitting revenge for the murder of children has not been devised yet by the devil himself." Later he declared that the death penalty should be imposed against terrorists who use extraordinary cruelty. That penalty has not been used since Adolf Eichmann's execution...
...only apparent loser-apart from live-ins who may be sued in the future for re-education costs-was Michelle Marvin's flamboyant lawyer, Marvin Mitchelson. His contingency fee was a third of her award. Since Mitchelson claims to have spent about 5,000 hours working on the case, his fee works out to about $6.50 an hour. That will not get your lawn mowed in Beverly Hills...
...hotel and real estate millionaire; to be married in San Francisco this week. Radziwill, an interior decorator, divorced the late publishing heir Michael Canfield in 1958 and the late Prince Stanislas Radziwill in 1974. Cope, the widower of Real Estate Heiress Dolly Fritz, will also be marrying for the third time...
...spot as a "hot-walker," the lowest stable job of cleaning out stalls and leading horses in endless circles to cool them off from workouts or races. He worked seven days a week, ten hours a day. Delp, divorced and rearing two teen-age sons, treated Franklin as a third...
...tempering its petroleum profligacy. Annual growth in demand subsided from 5% as recently as 1977 to 2% last year. But nearly all the improvement has come from conservation by industry, while individuals blithely go along wasting fuel. Not only has demand for gasoline, which accounts for one-third of the nation's fuel bill, continued to grow fast, but U.S. dependence on foreign oil has increased by nearly 50% since the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo, and this year will reach some $50 billion...