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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 31, 1977
Hostages Freed in Toronto |
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A gunman who held about 23 hostages in a Toronto bank office released them unharmed after 14 hours and surrendered to police, officials reported.Police said the gunman, identified as Paul Virtanen, 23, of Toronto, walked out of the National Bank Trust Co. branch behind his hostages. The incident began when Virtanen and an accomplice tried to hold up a drug store. The accomplice wasp arrested immediately. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 21, 1977
Some to Honor Veterans on Monday |
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All federal and District of Columbia government offices will be closed in observance of Veterans Day next Monday. Oct. 24.Maryland and Virginia state offices will remain open and will observe Nov. 11th as Veterans Day instead.In the Washington metropolitan area, some county and municipal offices will be open and others won't. The same is true for schools, banks, savings and loan associations and other government services.For example, Arlington and Montgomery County...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 16, 1977
A Showdown With Death at Sotheby Park Bernet |
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The pendant of gold and enamel from the late 17th or early 18th century is curiously made. It is a skull, and if you move the hinged jaw, the rose diamond eyes open.The memorial ring of gold and enamel forms a skeleton, a skull and crossbones and an hourglass incorporating a band of hair. Inscribed are the words, "W.H. Not lost but gone before No. 18 1661."The bronze figure of a skeleton stands 16 inches high on a black base. The right foot rests on a book of...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 4, 1977
Donald Dell: All Over the Tennis Court |
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A man who has observed most of the influential figures in American tennis over the past three decades, and has watched with particular fascination the rise of Washington attorney Donald Dell, greeted Dell before the semifinals of the $100,000 Volvo Classic here in March."You're doing pretty good, kid," he said, impressed by the workaholic fervor with which Dell has flung himself into building up pro tennis, and an empire for himself within it....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 22, 1977
Parents of Retarded Son Bear Sense of Guilt, Pain |
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At 6:30 a.m. Aug. 8, 1948, my mother felt the first stabbing pains of labor as her second son was about to be born."I told the nurse that I had delivered my first child very quickly, and I wanted the doctor nearby," Roslyn Willinger Meyers, 58, recalled. "But the doctor, a family friend, had gone downstairs for a pack of cigarettes. To delay delivery the nurse told me to cross my legs, and I did," she said.Despite that attempt at...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 19, 1977
"I have made a mess of my life, and it is too lat |
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"I have made a mess of my life, and it is too late to change it," said Greta Garbo, according to a recent interview with Frederick Sands published in the German magazine Bunte Illustrierte.Garbo, 72, once chosen by Variety magazine as the best actress of the first half of the 20th century, told Sands, the first journalist with whom she has spoken in 30 years, that she spends 10 months a year in New York and the other two months in the Swiss village of Klosters....
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 16, 1977
Luzinski, Schmidt Alter Chicago Skyline |
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Greg (The Bull) Luzinski and Mike Schmidt - say the names slowly - were created for power.Each half of the Philadelphia Phillies' Bull-Schmidt attack epitomizes an opposite type.Put them together, the bull and the panther, and you have a hybrid monster with 61 home runs and 167 RBI with nearly a third of the season left to play.Get them hot simultaneously, as they are now, and the result is a 12-game Phillie winning streak. And still counting. The noises at the heart...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 31, 1977
Juergen Ponto, chairman of the board of Dresdner |
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Juergen Ponto, chairman of the board of Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt, West Germany, was shot and wounded by three assailants in his suburban home. The reason for the attack was not known. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 20, 1977
Total banking activity in 11 industrialized count |
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Total banking activity in 11 industrialized countries, including the United States, slowed sharply in the first quarter, the Bank of International Settlements reported yesterday.External assets of reporting banks declined by $1 billion to $547 billion after a $47 billion gain in the final quarter of 1976. ...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - May 7, 1977
Israeli military authorities barred militant Rabb |
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Israeli military authorities barred militant Rabbi Meir Kahane from entering the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, preventing his announced attempt to established a settlement near Nablus. ... |
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