Word: absent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months, Southern California has been advertising its July 4 "All Nations, All Peoples" Los Angeles County Bicentennial parade as the longest in the nation. When the parade leaves Los Angeles en route to the Pacific Ocean, it will stretch for 10.8 miles. But the sidewalk excitement will be absent in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica, which will not provide police escorts. Once it reaches the Beverly Hills city limits, the parade must disband. On the other side of town new marching units will form and hike to the edge of Santa Monica. There the parade will fizzle, two miles short...
...Ansonborough, South Carolina, became the first colonist to cultivate a wide variety of exotic fruits and vegetables-including olives, capers, limes, ginger, guinea grass and Alpine strawberries. The most exceptional female planter, however, is Mrs. Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 53, also of South Carolina. When only a girl, managing her absent father's large plantation with what one friend called "a fertile brain for scheming," Eliza decided to start cultivating West Indian indigo. At first she suffered setbacks from frost and insect blight, but within seven years, she was able to produce an indigo dye of sufficient quality to export...
...Leontes's opposite number, Polixenes, who first suffers injustice and later commits it, George Hearn is an admirable successor to Jack Ryland, although he is not wholly at home in Shakespearean speech. Josef Sommer, absent from the AST for several seasons, is back, once more giving the impression that he was born speaking the Bard's language. This year he is Camillo, the lord who links the worlds of the two kings; and his performance is exemplary (except that the director still insists on substituting the word "undress" for the correct "discase...
Conspicuously absent from Reagan's campaign-or Ford's -was any salute to the last Republican elected President. Ford did not even mention Nixon's name, substituting instead "my predecessor" or "Lyndon Johnson's successor." Explained the President: "It is better for all of us just not to remind ourselves of that unfortunate period...
Schlaudroff said he has the power only to report to Walsh, and to make recommendations on disciplinary action. He said he has never recommended that a student be removed from the patrol, although he said he has found several tardy or absent from their posts...