Word: winded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME reports that movie moguls have hired Anne Edwards, a non-Southerner, to write the genesis for a sequel to Gone With the Wind, the alltime "mules and mansions" novel...
...than for its periodic military putsches and bottomless corruption. Yet at the height of the Viet Nam War, the U.S. shipped squadrons of bombers and some 50,000 troops to this California-size land, making it a fortress of American power. As the war in neighboring Indochina began to wind down, riotous Bangkok students overthrew Dictator Thanom Kit-tikachorn in 1973 and ushered in a neutralist government that requested U.S. withdrawal. Then began a series of shaky coalitions assembled by groupings of Thailand's 54 parties. Now, TIME's David Aikman cabled, the collapse of Thailand...
...despite a bad wind and a tough opponent, the team refused to let itself be blown away, displaying a tenacity that was reflected in the extreme closeness of the scores...
...this point, however, the Tufts coach, hard-pressed by scheduling difficulties, insisted that the players move to the more spacious outdoor courts. By a strange coincidence Tufts then went on to sweep three of the remaining four wind-swept matches...
...fate of the Boston Minuteman franchise may be announced today as the NASL general meetings wind up in Minneapolis. Sterge failed to put up the required bond by October 11, although he says he is still interested in Boston soccer. There are several potential buyers floating around the Twin Cities, if the NASL gives up on Sterge. The possibility also exists that the league will move the Minutemen elsewhere...