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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 6, 1977
College Track Coaches Covet Ready-Made Foreign Athletes |
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When Scott Neilson was in the ninth grade in New Westminster, British Columbia, he experimented with the hammer throw as part of his high-school track program. Today, a sophomore at the University of Washington, he is the United States collegiate champion in that event.If Neilson had been an American, he would have had to attend one of a few high schools in New England to find a hammer program."I think that's why the Americans don't throw as...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - June 1, 1977
'Very Difficult Problems' Separate U.S., Cuba, Mrs. Carter Says |
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Rosalynn Carter said today that although the United States is "making gestures" to Cuba, "difficult problems" remain before normal relations can be resumed.She mentioned American prisoners in Cuba and Cuban families who became separated, some living in the United States and some in Cuba, after the United States broke of diplomatic relations in 1961. She did not mention the question of compensation for American property expropriated by the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 31, 1977
No Day Is Long Enough for a Fisherman |
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No day is long enough for a fisherman, not even these endless days of early summer, the longest days of the year. Twice last week sunset closed the door just as the action seemed sure to warm.Dusk came too soon on the bay, with scores of bluefish rolling and lolling on glassy smooth waters. We were drifting silently, fishing live ells on deep lines and casting little spoons on spinning rods.It was a stirring scene, just right for a remarkable fish conquest. The sun was fire orange...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 29, 1977
Restless Financier |
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The photograph is burned into the memory. A group of people are lounging around a large swimming pool. The sun is bright, the lawn is mowed, the water is clear.At the center of the picture is Bernard Cornfeld, dressed in a bathing suit and lying on a chaise. He is doing business in the style to which he is accustomed. But what makes this photo so memorable is that while Bernie and his buddies do business in the foreground, off to the side is this beautiful long-haired girl, dressed in a...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 29, 1977
Adding an Options Dimension |
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A new dimension will be added to the dynamic options market this week which promises greater strategic flexibility - and a plumper bag of tricks - for the creative investor.With the symbolic ringing of bells Friday morning on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and the American, Philadelphia, Midwest and Pacific Stock Exchanges, the buying and writing of put options on 25 listed stocks will begin.While puts on some over-the-counter issues have been traded for years, the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 26, 1977
Saudi Bars Use Of Oil Embargo To Gain Accord |
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Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia called on Israel yesterday not to close the door to a Middle East peace settlement, but said his country will not use oil as a weapon to force an agreement.President Carter, speaking to reporters after two days of talks with the Saudi leader, said Fahd also sought to reassure Israel about protection of its security in the context of a peace agreement.Fahd's statements appeared to be part of an effort to show continuing moderation in the...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 25, 1977
How an Insolvent Firm Keeps Selling Insurance |
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Eight years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Odell A. Mize made the final payment on a $500 life insurance policy they had taken out 10 years earlier on their son.The Mize's policy provided in writing that the company, New South Life Insurance Co., based here in Columbia, would pay on demand the value of the policy in cash or make a loan against that value.But recently, when the Mizes tried to get money from the company for a down payment on a mobile home for their son's...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 22, 1977
Catholic Church, Military Draw Battle Lines in El Salvador |
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Shortly after six o'clock on a recent evening, Alfonso Navarro Olveido, 33, a Catholic priest, was sitting in his home reading when four masked gunmen walked in and killed him with seven bullets.News of Navarro's murder was all but ignored by San Salvador's two leading newspapers, whose front pages the next day were filled with accounts of the burial of Salvadoran Foreign Minister Mauricio Borgonovo. Kidnapped three weeks earlier by leftist terroists,...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 21, 1977
Short Takes on Real Estate Topics |
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First Colony Homes, a division of J&J Construction, Inc., Calverton, Va. is opening a solar-heated house today in the Lake Montclair subdivision near Dumfries, Va., off Rte. 95 at the Rte. 234 exit. Funded by a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Dvelopment, the system was designed by the Westinghouse Electric Corp. It uses solar power in combination with a heat pump for both heating and cooling the house, which is highly contemporary in design and thus able to...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 15, 1977
This is a busier than usual week for collectors o |
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This is a busier than usual week for collectors of United States stamps and related material. A 13-cent commemorative will go on sale Friday to note the 50th anniversary of the first solo transatlantic flight (by Charles A. Lindbergh), and on the same day the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will release its souvenir card for the Rocky Mountain Philatelic Exhibition (Rompex) being held in Denver May 20-22.The U.S. Postal Service will issue its 13-cent Colorado Statehood Centennial stamp...
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