Word: vane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cavanagh once again had trouble getting started, but he breezed through the last two sets to beat Brian Williams, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. Randy Barnett beat George Jacoby at number three, 6-3, 6-1; Bill Brock disposed of Bob Vane at four, 6-4, 6-2; and Peter Briggs topped Bill Kellogg...
Hollywood usually gets its bearings from the weather vane rather than the compass. Since the wind has been blowing chilly from Indochina, a new movie or two have gingerly and unconvincingly suggested that America's flaws are innate rapacity and violence...
...thieves' ingenuity has been almost as quaint as their plunder. It has been reported that in several cases they hired helicopters to pluck their booty from the roofs of houses and barns. Robert Eldred of Dennis, Mass., returned from a trip to find that his square-rigger ship vane had vanished. Six months later, it was traced with the help of an antique dealer to a banker's house in Florida. Eldred flew to Florida and, taking two extra seats in the plane, returned home with his antique. Before Eldred had time to remount the weather vane...