Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard (now 2-0), which came into the contest as a six-point underdog against the cross-town Huntington Avenue Hounds, next faces Bucknell, 32-24 winners Saturday over five-time defending Ivy champ Penn...
When Li Shuchang became a Communist Party chief in the northeastern town of Yingkou, his family quickly prospered. Li named a son to be deputy director of the local industry and commerce bureau. Li's son-in-law became deputy secretary of the Communist Youth League, and his daughter rose from typist to police-department junior official. But when more than a dozen cousins and other clan members also gained influential posts, outraged city leaders acted. They sacked Li last month, suspended his party membership, and warned all local party members to take heed of his example...
...Cosby brownstone, in Manhattan's East 60s, is similar to the one inhabited by TV's Huxtables but more distinctively furnished: with Persian carpets, mahogany sculptures and displays of exotic cut flowers. Cosby invites a stranger to the town house only when his wife and five children are away. He is fiercely protective of their privacy; they decline all requests for interviews. It is known that Son Ennis, 18, is studying prelaw at a black college in the South near his sister Erinn, 20, who studies psychology. Eldest Daughter Erika, 22, is an aspiring artist, painting in New York...
...impressions at parties. Soon he was picking up nightclub gigs in Philadelphia and New York. Juggling comedy stints with school and sports grew more difficult, and the inevitable clash came during his junior year. The football team (for which Cosby played second- string fullback) had to travel out of town for a Saturday game; Cosby had booked himself into a $225 club engagement on Friday night. He sought permission to join the team late, but the school's athletic director refused. Forced to choose between comedy and college, Cosby opted for laughs and dropped out of school. Within a year...
...crew members to Koreans.At the huge U.S. naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines, local go-go girls strip in the sailors' clubs while prostitutes circulate among the tables, much to the dismay of U.S. servicewomen seeking relaxed meals outside the mess halls. In the adjacent bar-studded town of Olongapo, women on liberty from the Navy and Marines are "grabbed on the streets by the military men, treating them as though they were free game...