Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battles evil politicians and braves a confrontation with militarists. "There's no doubt that it's worth putting more time into the manuscript," says Lindsay's agent, Owen Laster, who is showing the book to New York publishers. Evidently the ex-mayor has a deft touch when it comes to mixing passion and politics. "There's a nice massage scene," reports one reader of Lindsay's draft...
...pinball machines, on the other hand, are lower priced than most Square locations; the people are extraordinarily friendly; and there's a lot of the personal touch in every serving. Give...
...Cambridge group is newer than the Medical Area one; it started only last spring, when an aggressive, persuasive secretary in the Physics Department named Gertraude Schroder started to talk to other secretaries about organizing. Schroder has been in fairly constant touch with the Medical Area group since she started to think about unionization, receiving advice and help along the way--although the two groups do not plan to join forces at present because the Medical Area committee is so much farther along...
...credit demands of an inflationary econ, omy. Now there are some signs I that the board, realizing the shaky state of business, is becoming a trifle more generous; at minimum, it has stopped twisting the money tourniquet ever tighter. That small bit of good news was enough to touch off a Friday stock market rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average up 22 points...
...crew fire water cannons at the Israeli boats, causing them to duck out of range. But they remained on station, and the Soviets finally left the same day. Israel has complained to the U.N. for weeks about territorial violations by Soviet sweepers and helicopters, and is keeping in touch with Washington on the spraying incident. Clearly in no mood to take a hosing from the Russians, Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres observed: "Our boats, being used to fire, will not give up in the face of water...