Word: walking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After lunch there is the ritual known as the walk. If the hickory, pine and bobolinks that grace the center's 15 acres are not enough, there is what may be termed the reality walk. A peripatetic scholar will stroll to the end of the center's private road and scuff pebbles along Alexander Drive while authentic truck drivers roar past. Then, with perspective restored and the latest Alice-Lucy masterpiece well on the road to digestion, it's back to the study. Or to a seminar. There are four ongoing seminars meeting this year, rather forbiddingly...
...italics] among other stockholders," and only then, when this does not bring about corporate withdrawal, to "adopt a policy of strategic divestiture." The struggle has been going on too long, and other universities have begun to divest. This is not the time to start a slow walk up a gradual slope...
...brutal murders took place between September 1977 and February 1978 and brought a reign of terror to Los Angeles. Women were afraid to walk alone at night, even in residential areas. The strangler's victims included a prostitute and a runaway, whose nude bodies were found tossed into wooded areas. His eighth and ninth victims, however, were twelve-year-old girls, school chums at a Catholic elementary school who disappeared while out shopping. The killer dumped their bodies near Dodger Stadium...
...slap at Alfred L. Atherton Jr., the career diplomat who preceded him in this job and who will be named Ambassador to Cairo. As one former aide put it, Strauss can "take two guys that are in total disagreement with each other into a room and walk out later with neither of the two satisfied but both having stepped a lot closer together." One Texas-size question: Will the cajoling style that served Strauss so well in smoke-filled rooms at Democratic conventions have the same effect on Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin...
...crowd marched from the Common to Mayor Kevin White's home in Mount Vernon Square off Charles St. While the demonstrators remained silent during most of the walk, they took up the chant "No More Murders" as they picked on the sidewalk outside White's house. White had left Boston for the weekend and was not at home during the demonstration...