Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friday morning, the busiest place in Jerusalem is the Mahaneh Yehuda (Camp of Judah) market. Last week, a crowd of 3,000 filled its narrow lanes and open stalls as housewives shopped for the Sabbath. No one noticed a small blue delivery van parked on Agrippas Street, nor could they know that it carried 450 lbs. of explosives and a timing device. At precisely 9:28 a.m., the van blew...
That possibility continued throughout last week to be stymied by the unwillingness of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu to agree to send a delegation to Paris and sit at the same negotiating table with the National Liberation Front of the Viet Cong. There were reports and rumors that he was about to change his mind. But the delay brought to nearly a month the elapsed time since the bombing halt. Meanwhile, the war on the ground in South Viet Nam sputtered...
Harvard took ninth with 276 with Miami, Ohio, 10th with 277. In the unofficial scores Miami was given 292 and Harvard 293. The team scoring was to be handled swiftly by a computer at Manhattan College, close to the site at Van Cortlandt Park. But the machine goofed...
Sophomore Dave Pottetti led the Harvard effort yesterday, as he surged to the front of the large field early and held his position over the six-mile Van Cortlandt Park course to cop 23rd place. Pottetti thus became the second runner in Harvard history to gain All-American recognition, awarded to the top 25 finishers in the National Collegiate meet...
...expressively sprayed canvases of Jules Olitski and the newly fluid pictures of Larry Poons. "New art is disturbing to everybody," warns a big pop collector, Robert Scull, who is also a major patron of the newer art. "It takes a realignment of your computer to like it." Says Jan Van der Marck, director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art: "They are doing just what the pop artists did; they are pushing the limits of the acceptable...