Word: weekend
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Gone Like a Leaf. Taking a weekend off after the strain of a Senate election campaign and the devaluation of the British pound, Holt jumped into his red 1967 Pontiac and drove 59 miles from Melbourne to a small, white hilltop beach home he had built in the southern seaside town of Portsea on Port Phillip Bay. Though his doctors had warned him against swimming because of a slight muscular complaint, Holt felt that the sea air and the relaxation would do him good. So early on an overcast Sunday morning, he picked up four friends-Portsea Neighbors Alan Stewart...
...Since these are often considerably to the left of Franco's, the government is now insisting that politics has no place in a university. But politics was not the only issue responsible for a series of pitched battles between police and University of Madrid students; on a recent weekend some 80 protesters were arrested. Even some pro-Franco professors sympathize with student complaints that the university is chronically overcrowded, poorly equipped and sorely underfinanced...
...Institute was to expire January 31. It is known that while White's aides were suggesting the BRA post to him, he was also considering several other offers, including a job similar to the BRA directorship in a city larger than Boston. He visited that city over the weekend, and told White Monday morning he would accept the Boston post...
...Nutcracker Suite is to Christmas as fireworks are to the Fourth of July, and this Christmas nearly a half million people will see Tchaikovsky's classic ballet. Last weekend the Boston Ballet, supported by guest stars from Ballanchine's New York City Ballet, gave three performances. Despite its popularity, the derogatory comments heaped on the ballet at its first performance in St. Petersburg in 1892 are still true. The music though lyrical, is Tchaikovsky at his most saccharine; the choreoraphy of Pea, the Russian master, and his assistant Ivanov, allows a lot of room for horseplay and very little...
...other two weekend matches, the racquetmen whipped the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, 9-1, then bowed 7-3 to the Montreal Badminton and Squash Club on Sunday. The MBSC team won the U.S. Team Championships last year and is currently the best team in North America...