Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reign of Louis XIV." The palace, which is located about twelve miles west of Paris, had remained unscathed during the Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870, as well as during the first and second World Wars. Responsibility for the bombing was claimed by three extremist groups: Unemployment International, the Revolutionary Worker Group and a military wing of the Breton Liberation Front. French authorities took the Breton claim seriously. A telephone tip turned up a letter from the Breton Republican Army. Signed Youenn ar sorn (Little Salamander in the Breton language, which is related to Welsh), the letter said that the attack...
After captaining the 1973 freshman team, McDermott started for the varsity much of his sophomore year when Peter Curtin was sidelined with an injury. He caught eight passes and scored a touchdown that year, but there was no room for a hard worker and enthusiastic team man in the world of football hero-worship at the time. Not with Pat McInally in his senior year...
...page policy address that was remarkable for its globe-spanning comprehensiveness-plus, in certain respects, its blandness. He soberly warned of the dangers of a new world war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Tito lectured party stalwarts on the need to raise productivity in Yugoslavia's worker-manager system of socialism. As for the country's future, he magisterially declared that any speculation was "really ridiculous and senseless. We look to tomorrow with confidence and optimism...
...soccer, and too recently the best player in the world to resign himself to his job as a TV commentator, said miserably during the qualifying round that "Brazil, my beloved Brazil, has only given us reason to cry." He cried too soon, and back in Brazil a despairing construction worker and soccer fan named Julio Gondim poured sleeping pills into a bottle of rum and committed suicide too soon: his team did not drop out of the running until the last day of the elimination...
...that Beatty will ever move into it. "There's no anchor in Warren's life," observes one friend. "Warren is always on the go," says Arthur Penn. "He travels light and takes one small suitcase from coast to coast. I guess you'd call him a very rich migrant worker." Last week Beatty arrived in New York to organize the advance screenings of Heaven Can Wait and harass the Paramount sales force with endless queries. It took the elegant Carlyle Hotel two days to determine whether or not he had actually checked into his suite. At one point a maid...