Word: third
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third-period insurance goal by Bobby Miller turned out to be the margin of victory last night at Boston Garden as the Bruins topped the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-3, to take a 2-0 advantage in their best-of-seven NHL quarterfinal series...
Besides the clutch showing in the 200 meter sprint, the tracksters got mileage in the 100 meter race from Joe Salvo (first in 11.2) and Chapus (third...
Crimson senior Ron Himelman grabbed medalist honors with an eight-over 80 to lead Harvard to a five-man aggregate of 416, good enough for a four-shot win over MIT. The bedraggled Bates contingent finished a distant third, with...
...cultivated faculty members who had been with the wartime Office of Strategic Services and used these contacts to find agents among the burgeoning numbers of foreign students--there were only 34,323 in 1955 but about 250,000 in 1975. An increasing percentage of these came from the turbulent Third World in which the CIA gradually took more interest and to which the American-educated student would return as a member of his country's elite...
Vast amounts of money were and are dispensed to buy, bribe or bully the loyalty of many Third World students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student...