Word: 79th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a round of farewell parties in Saigon, Bunker will move on to Nepal, where his wife Carol Laise presides over the U.S. embassy, and celebrate his 79th birthday. Then a leisurely return home via Rome and London-skipping Paris, he interjected-a look at his homes in Washington and Vermont, a visit to his daughter in Brazil, and finally a return to Washington for reassignment. "As far as the U.S. in Viet Nam is concerned," he said, "the degree of progress is that we can work ourselves out of a job." Bunker may have worked himself out of Viet...
Perfect Sense. It is the mark of the eccentric that he considers himself normal; it is only the world that views him as odd. To Allen, the East 79th Street duplex in Manhattan that he now shared with Louise made perfect sense. It had a striking Aubusson rug, a Tiffany lamp, a newly decorated interior. His old apartment had contained a bed in the middle of the floor-and little else. The new main room held a billiard table -and nothing else. The ceilings concealed tiny spotlights to illuminate pictures on the walls. But there were no pictures...
...other action Sunday, the U.S. Air Force and Navy fighter-bombers made their 79th "protective reaction" strike inside North Vietnam this year. Pilots said they knocked out two enemy anti-aircraft guns 80 miles north of the demilitarized zone...
...find that I like cold countries now," said Newscaster Lowell Thomas last week as he celebrated his 79th birthday. "The heat takes it out of you." The heat isn't all that does it. At Miami's Crandon Park Zoo, where he was visiting Mohan, a 1,500-lb. rhinoceros that he had helped to capture, Thomas turned to talk to the keeper while feeding his rhino friend some greens. Mohan munched the greens and went right on munching until he was lunching on Thomas' trousers. "I was lucky," said Lowell. "If he had got hold...