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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 26, 1977
Thanks to Pele, Nobody's Laughing at NASL Now |
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Reprinted from yesterday's late edition.Two hour before Pele would play his last real soccer game for 73,669 worshippers in this Fun City West, a gamboling fawn of a child named Jennifer Schecjterman, age 10, all brown eyes and freckles, said, "Baseball's too draggy."It is?"You are always sitting down."Draggy, huh?"One batter gets up and everybody else looks at him."How...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 23, 1977
Futile Diplomacy |
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Once again Secretary of State Cyrus Vance is on the road, and once again be is traveling with an empty brief case. Even if the administration had been able to make up its collective wavering mind over what to do about the People's Republic of China and the island of Taiwan, Vance in Peking would be powerless to do more than make a gesture of goodwill toward an ultimate solution.To have taken any positive step in the direction of de-recognizing Taiwan and granting full...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 9, 1977
The Night Of the Memphis Sopranos |
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Reprinted from yesterday's late editions The Potomac, the Rhine and the Nile were in and round the music Sunday night at Kennedy Center, but to the three sopranos in concert, all from Memphis, the river of of rivers is the one of their childhood, the Mississippi.A soft summer downpour greeted the crowd arriving for Memphis Night, with 100 Memphians on hand to holler for their girls, the first of whom was Ruth Welting in the same kind of innocent cotton dress a girl might...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 3, 1977
Violence in Turkey |
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Two reputed rightists were shot and killed here and at least 10 bombs exploded outside banks, office buildings and the homes of businessmen in overnight violence, police reported. There also were bomb blasts in Ankara and Izmir, but no casualties were reported. The violence came after Turkey's rightest coalition government won a vote of confidence. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 24, 1977
Special Energy stamps and embossed envelopes will |
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Special Energy stamps and embossed envelopes will be issued later this year by the U.S. Postal Service. The two 13-cent stamps (one stressing energy conservations; the other energy development) will be printed in semi-jumbo size, and will alternate in the same pane. Except for one word ("conservation" or "development"), the designs will be identical, featuring a light bulb, a gasoline can, the sun and a building.Terrence W.McCaffrey, a postal...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 20, 1977
Guerry Upsets Smith, Yuill Bounces Richey |
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Stan Smith and Cliff Richey, who monopolized the No. 1 U.S. ranking from 1969 through 1972, were upset in the first round of the $125,000 Washington Star International tennis championships yesterday in steamy midday heat that made the Washington Tennis Stadium seem like an open-air sauna with a floor of clay.Both 30-year-olds appeared to have their sharpness melted and their minds dazed by the stifling sun as they were beaten in straightsets by 28-year-old journeymen who love the nomadic...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 13, 1977
June wholesale prices in Japan showed the biggest |
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June wholesale prices in Japan showed the biggest one-month decline in 27 months because of a fall in import prices following improvement in the value of the yen, the Bank of Japan said yesterday.The bank spokesman said the wholesale price index for last month stood at 169.2 against the base figure of 100 in 1970, down 0.2 per cent from May, the sharpest decline since 1975. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 30, 1977
Guild Subscription Plans |
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This coming season there will be two Theater Guild subscription plans, one covering the Kennedy Center Opera House and Eisenhower Theater, the second for the National."A Chorus Line," in September, and "The Wiz" will be the musical Ken-Cen bait, where four of the 10 offerings also will include Mary Martin and Anthony Quayle in "Old World," a two-character play by Aleksei Arbuzov, the most exported of contemporary...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 29, 1977
Carter Tells Agencies to Plan Larger Foreign Aid Program |
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President Carter has ordered government agencies to develop a substantially larger U.S. foreign aid program for the next five years, even as Congress is demanding reductions instead.Carter's order, which has launched an interagency study to be completed by Sept. 1, followed a promise to poorer nations by Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance that the administration will seek "a substantial increase" in U.S. bilateral and multilateral aid progams over the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 26, 1977
Espionage, But No Escape: The Spy Thriller as Metaphor |
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IN HIS 10 YEARS with the CIA, Charles McCarry will tell you, there were two kinds of men that he never met: "One was an assassin and the other a Republican."But he did know many versions of Paul Christopher, the covert agent who moves under deep cover through McCarry's espionage novels, which became a trilogy with the appearance of "The Secret Lovers" a few weeks ago.Those of the McCarry cult use such terms as...
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