Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sullivan, Newnham, and teammate Johanna Forman all will compete in this weekend's National AAU cross country championships in Memphis, Tennessee...
...until Dr. Verbruggen follows the Bears into the locker room and makes a final check on the night's bumps and bruises that he is sure all his conditioning has paid off. There are no injuries that won't pretty well heal over the weekend. "Football is a game that can be played hard and well without injuries," says Verbruggen as he closes his black bag. "Tonight I'm happy." -B.J. Phillips
...there was a characteristic shared by the successful candidates, it may have been hard work. For the Washington incumbents, every weekend back home. Dawn-to-dawn traveling, handshaking, exhorting by the challengers...
...last hold-out against Marxism, in an effort to woo American support for their position. Always they ask, both blacks and whites, what the U.S. will do when it comes down to the wire, whether it will intervene, and on which side. Cyrus Vance is in Pretoria this weekend discussing Namibia, so the question is particularly relevant. Unfortunately, I can't answer; neither could he, probably. If South Africa is liberated, the whole western economic structure is likely to change drastically, and it isn't clear to anyone the U.S. won't end up joining South Africa's whites...
...hand and spark a military takeover. Martial law is still very visible in the capital; 100,000 troops patrol the streets, and tanks and armored cars make Tehran's notorious traffic jams worse than ever. Despite almost daily demonstrations by protesters, the generals-at least until the weekend Shootout at Tehran University -had obeyed the Shah's command to avoid the sort of bloody showdown that followed the imposition of martial law in twelve cities on Sept. 8. One inhibiting factor may be the top echelon's doubt that rank-and-file troops would support their commanders...