Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn has relied heavily on its medley relay team of Alex Kazcikas, Tim Shead, Tarn Thompson and Crooks, as a potent early scoring punch in its last two meets. The group gave Penn a 3:33.6 against the Elis, with Shead swimming a 59.9 breaststroke...
...pull off a victory. The latest Gallup poll last week in fact gave Labor 42%% of the vote to the Tories 39%%. That was a reversal of January's poll, when the Tories led Labor by 40% to 38%. Said the Opinion Research Center's Chairman T.F. Thompson: "Public opinion has never been more volatile than it is at the moment...
Spassky did not disappoint them. He entered to enthusiastic applause, then set to work with a standard PK4 opening. Just eight moves and 20 minutes later, he claimed his first victim, Gordon Thompson, 26. "I made a terrible boner," said Thompson. "I had hoped to last at least ten moves...
...Reno courtroom last week, U.S. District Court Judge Bruce R. Thompson left absolutely no doubt about his low opinion of the Government's case. "The worst criminal pleading I've ever encountered," he snapped. With that, Thompson dismissed charges of stock manipulation, conspiracy, wire fraud and other offenses brought against Billionaire Howard Hughes and four co-defendants for their part in a successful effort from June 1968 to April 1970 to acquire the foundering Air West airline (now Hughes Air West). Thompson, regarded as a tough but fair-minded judge, found no clear criminal activity in the indictment...
...GOVERNOR THOMPSON, in his one year in office, has created a series of issues which appear to have alienated most of the state. He ordered the building of an oil refinery in Durham against the wishes of an overwhelming majority of the residents of the area. The refinery, which will be financed by Aristotle Onassis, has been protested by petitions and in public meetings; Thompson's advice to the protesters was to move out of the state. Durham, which is the seat of the University of New Hampshire, a favorite target of Thompson and of the Union Leader...