Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steer named Jeep. It also appears that he was dyed black for the show, for which the Charolais breed is not eligible, and entered as an Angus. A previous owner of the animal, which was reported to have died last November of hardware sickness (from eating metal, like barbed wire), spotted Big Mac at the show and declared him "the spitting image of Jeep, except that he's black instead of white...
...students who want to question and criticize the comfortable Jewish world they grew up in. Last week 35 of the young editors were in New York for a three-day conference designed to make them into better journalists. The conference sponsor: the Jewish Student Press Service, a precariously budgeted wire service created two years ago to serve the new journals...
...historic flight. With just a handful of close advisers, the great man stepped into his jet and vanished over the horizon. While he was in the air, wire service bulletins carried the news of his departure, and leaders in the host country busily prepared for his arrival...
...turned out, Howard Hughes was upstaged by a mere President of the U.S. Not by all that much, however. At one point last week, on the day that Hughes headed for Nicaragua and Richard Nixon left for China, an Associated Press wire in Washington carried five items on Hughes and only three on the President. By late afternoon, however, the President was ahead, 9 to 7. Even so. the New York Daily News next morning bannered its report of Hughes' flight, with smaller front-page type for Nixon's mission. In a contest between history and fascinating trivia...
Following the tradition of down-to-the-wire thrillers, Harvard and Columbia battled their way to an 84-84 tie at the end of regulation time, and in the final seconds of the second overtime period, Harvard's Marshall Sanders sank a 15-foot jumper to lift the Crimson to a 102-100 victory...