Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Kibbutz Hanita, the Lebanese border is just over the next hill, a grenade's throw away. Three high barbed-wire fences separate our kibbutz from the border. The fighting is reported to be as close as six miles away...
James Vorenberg, associate dean of Harvard Law School and master of Dunster House, is a leading candidate for the presidency of the University of Massachusetts, an Associated Press (A.P.) wire dispatch reported yesterday...
...American professor of Russian history at the University of Virginia, chained herself to an embassy fence to protest a four-year Soviet refusal to give her a visa to join her husband. The woman was arrested and held for three hours, then released. Soviet authorities blocked transmission of U.S. wire-service photos of the incident and prevented CBS from sending satellite pictures of the woman chained to the fence. The next day, embassy officials formally protested the interference, and Vance specifically mentioned the affair in his talks with Gromyko. That led to one of the most contentious exchanges...
Heather Watts, 24. Corps de ballet, New York City Ballet. Watts is a lithe wire of a woman who radiates both sensuality and wit onstage. She has approached her career rather casually; Balanchine persuaded her to quit smoking by restructuring a solo just for her. She lives now with Peter Martins, who created his first ballet, Calcium Light Night, for her. A lady with magnetism...
...dogfight for varsity berths among the top 16. A perplexed Higginson tried mixing various combinations for his defending Eastern Spring bout. But the filet mignon of lightweight crews kept on coming out of the Newell oven like an Elsie-Burger, losing to Rutgers while just edging MIT at the wire...