Word: five
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Then Watson, who had been stroking smoothly but remained third, started to pick up the pace and caught the labering Hand. Eventually, Watson made up the five yards separating him from Burns and won handily in 10:34.9. Burns was second...
...favorite place to go was still California, the last continental stop in the American migration, which became the nation's most populous state, with 19,953,134 residents. In the final 1970 census figures, announced last week, California surpassed New York by 1.7 million, thus gaining five new seats in the House while New York loses...
Thus, "if a lethal homemade bomb is planted in your building, you can take immediate, decisive action to save lives and minimize costly damage." The price is only $149.50, with a 10% discount for orders of five or more. There might, of course, be some additional expense in finding a hero willing to tiptoe up to the bomb and swaddle it in the blanket...
...their part, Administration insiders have questioned whether Egeberg knows what is going on in HEW. They complain that it took him eleven months to fill three of the department's five top health posts with nominees acceptable to the Administration. Critics charge that he has been too immersed in petty bickering with other HEW officials to do his own job. Egeberg claims to have the complete confidence of HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson. But Richardson has yet to make a public statement supporting Egeberg...
There is a tradition in mining communities as old as grief, but layered over with the special stresses of men who go into mines: the dead must have a decent burial; the bodies must be recovered. Since the 1968 disaster, only five of the bodies have been brought out of the mine (three of them last week, the first to be found since October 1969), and returned to their families for burial. For the rest, there is division over what should be done...