Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most intriguing questions about the rumors is who started them. Orchestration of what may well be a politically motivated smear campaign has been variously attributed to leftists embittered by their defeat in last spring's election, Israeli embassy officials angered by France's pro-Arab tilt, secret-service men disturbed by Giscard's cavalier disregard of their efforts to protect him, Sygma photographers miffed by presidential patronage of a rival Gamma photographer, and old-guard civil servants appalled by Discard's relatively breezy approach to running the government. The explanation that has gained greatest currency...
...heads to Detroit for the Great Lakes Tournament on Dec. 27 and 28, meeting Michigan in the first round while Yale battles NCAA runner-up Michigan Tech. The Wolverines have defeated formidable Michigan Tech twice this year, but three of their regular skaters have been suspended for the Harvard tilt...
...talent to fill almost half of the All-East team. Baylor coach Grant Teaff--named UPI Coach of the Year last week--came two years ago to a school that had won 14 games in seven years, and has clearly produced a miracle for the Baptists, who enter the tilt with an 8-3 record...
...uncharacteristically subdued. Perhaps he was preoccupied with weighty matters involving Moscow and the Middle East. On the other hand, he may only have been a bit apprehensive about seeing India's proud, mercurial Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Their last meeting, which coincided with the start of a U.S. "tilt" toward Pakistan during the Bangladesh crisis of 1971, ended in mutual distrust. Mrs. Gandhi has since been known to turn livid at the very mention of Kissinger's name. Prospects for a successful encounter seemed dim after India's National Herald, on the day of Kissinger...
...terms. So it is up to the judiciary. The judge must be a modern legal entrepreneur who can manage the business of a fair trial by persuading jurors to be objective, eliminating those who cannot be and exercising a restraining influence on all extraneous forces that could cause a tilt. Theodore R. Kupferman, Associate , Supreme Court Appellate Division, New York City...