Word: drawing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...track Soyuz to within about a yard of its actual path. Indeed, the flight went so well that the cosmonauts took time out from their 16-hour work days-exercises, photographic experiments, spacecraft check-outs -to battle ground crews in a longdistance chess match (which ended in a draw on the 36th move...
Despite these dangers, Washington is aware that the U.S. is Israel's last resort, and an outright rejection could be dangerous. Rather than be outgunned and outmaneuvered eventually, Israel might carry out a pre-emptive strike that could draw Russians and perhaps Americans, too, into a Middle East war. Some observers also note that Israel, with a nuclear reactor in the Negev as a source of enriched plutonium, could build a nuclear weapon in a matter of months. Though the Israelis have vowed that they would not be the first to introduce nukes into the Middle East, would they stick...
...open split made the left's internal warfare public property, and the spectacle was one not calculated to draw new recruits to the radical cause. In October, 1969, Boston PL members even called press conferences to attack their political rivals and flabbergasted establishment reporters by charging that Mark Rudd (former leader of Columbia SDS and now a member of the street-fighting Weathermen) was a real live police agent...
...Netherlands, with 60,000 migrants, has modified its welfare legislation so that Moslem workers can draw allowances for the children of more than one wife. In Britain, one veteran restaurantgoer remarks ruefully, "To dine out successfully in London today, a rapid course in Spanish and Italian is advisable. But if you want to be sure of getting what you order, ask for spaghetti." In Leeds, the winner of a recent Yorkshire pudding baking contest turned out to be a Chinese cook who spoke no English and called the prize-winning dish shortska po din (because that is how it sounded...
...countered with his own backlash-a stiff punch in the nose. "I'm sorry I did that," said the former Governor and U.S. Senator. "I didn't even think." The punch won Happy no votes on the campus, where he is a trustee, but it did draw a commendatory letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...