Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the worst fighting of the war occurred over the New Year's weekend in the city of Mashhad, with its blue mosque and shrine to the 8th century Shi'ite Imam Reza, the holiest sites in Iran. "Three days after the rioting," reported TIME Correspondent Roland Flamini, "gutted buildings smoldered in Mashhad, and burned-out trucks and cars littered the semideserted streets. Though the city seemed calm, the army, which had withdrawn to barracks, did not appear in control. A bus full of foreign journalists who had been flown from Tehran was escorted by five truckloads...
Movies also turned out to be a popular asylum for exhausted minds. One junior said she passed the time at "Misty Beethoven," which played at Quincy House over the weekend...
Wendy Carle went on a one-woman rampage in New England this weekend, leading the 6-4 Harvard women's basketball team to a 57-32 triumph over Keene State College in Keene, N.H. on Friday and a 59-47 win over Williams in Williamstown, Mass. on Saturday...
...Higshead certainly wasn't the only star to descend on Cambridge this weekend. Petra Schneider, one of the ten top East German swimmers who graced Blodgett's waters, pulled an impressive double win in the individual medley events. Krause added the 200 freestyle to her list of golds. And lanky 15-year-old Marybeth Linzmeier amassed the third highest point total of the meet, winning the endless 1650-yd. freestyle en route...
...WEEKEND RESULTS...