Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bailey and Browning had hoped to wrap up their cases by week's end, but on Thursday the defendant came down with the flu. Wearing a surgical mask and running a slight fever (100.2° F.), she was taken for tests to a U.S. Public Health Service hospital. Judge Oliver J. Carter has told the weary jury members he hopes they will be able to withdraw into seclusion this weekend to pass judgment on Patty Hearst...
Again, things blew up in Lebanon, giving the rest of the world a grim sense of déjà vu. Beirut's television station suddenly interrupted a news broadcast last Thursday to present startled viewers with the grim visage of Brigadier General Aziz Ahdab, commander of the Beirut military region. In cool, measured tones, he proclaimed a state of emergency and declared that he had just taken control of the country as Military Governor. Giving no hint as to his source of support, Ahdab called on President Suleiman Franjieh and Premier Rashid Karami to resign within 24 hours...
...stock market last week put on a maddeningly teasing performance: the Dow Jones industrial average cracked the 1,000 mark not once but five times, and each time it fell back. On Thursday the 30-stock index even managed to close at 1,003.31, its first close above 1,000 in more than three years. But on Friday profit taking in U.S. Steel and Bethlehem and worries about a possible rise in interest rates beat the Dow down...
Harvard now plans, as Dr. Chase N. Peterson '52, vice president for alumni affairs and development, said on Thursday, to "get off the plateau" and significantly increase outside resources as a source of funding to Harvard...
...said his impression of the meetings with the visiting committee on Thursday and Friday was that it "went very well, and they found that we're doing well at Carpenter Center and in VES, and that we have a new spirit since their last visit...