Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before his weekend departure, Vance received yet another sign that his second mission to Moscow had gone better than his first: during a final, two-hour meeting with Brezhnev, the Soviet leader and Vance agreed in principle that a Carter-Brezhnev summit would be desirable in midsummer-if a SALT agreement can be worked out by then...
...first ominous step-up in the war of nerves had come over the previous weekend in a message from the terrorists announcing that Moro had been sentenced to death following his "people's trial." The following Tuesday police found the first Communiqué No. 7. In a mocking reference to West Germany's announcement last fall that three jailed terrorists had committed suicide in their cells, the message said Moro had been executed by "suicide," which "must not be only a prerogative of the Baader-Meinhof group." It went on to say that Moro's body could...
When Gary Miner, a marine-supply company manager, entered Las Vegas' Sunrise Hospital for heart treatment, he hardly expected that he would come away with an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii. Overcrowded on weekdays and underused on weekends, Sunrise is solving its problem in true Las Vegas fashion: a lottery for all those who agree to enter the hospital on weekends, with a weekly prize of a $4,000 vacation. Since the game was started 14 months ago, admissions have jumped by 60%, to about 85 each weekend. The hospital estimates that this brings a $2.5 million increase...
Harvard entered the game with a distinct disadvantage. In last weekend's Beanpot Tournament, team captain Peter Hilton's season ended prematurely thanks to a severe ankle sprain. But the real damage occurred in Wednesday's 24-9 loss to the Boston Rugby Club--ranked fourth in the nation--in which four regulars received serious injuries, keeping them out of Saturday's contest...
...heavyweights did indeed feel as confident of victory as they appeared, they avoided admitting it with a politician's expertise. Coach Harry Parker cautioned that although his crew had rowed well against Brown last weekend, particularly during their spring after a crab, the 2000-meter race will be close because Princeton's varsity is "very fast...