Word: afternoon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the twelve black men and women filed into the White house Cabinet room late one afternoon last week, they knew the meeting was going to be unpleasant. For more than a year they had watched Jimmy Carter, the man they had helped make President, moving toward a more and more conservative economic policy. Now there was open talk that the Administration's fight against inflation would mean substantial cuts in federal spending on programs to help the poor. Unemployment would rise, and there might soon be a recession. The black leaders felt slighted and betrayed...
...Late one afternoon, about 30 Arizona and California law officers descended on a sparsely developed section of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Their quarry was Charles ("Chuck") Dederich, 65, the founder of Synanon, who was wanted in connection with an attempt in October to murder Los Angeles Attorney Paul Morantz with a rattlesnake hidden in his mail box. The officers found Dederich at home. Said Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John Watson: "He was in a stupor, staring straight ahead, with an empty bottle of Chivas Regal in front of him." Because his physical condition did not permit...
Your typical convention opens on a Sunday, gently, with late-afternoon registration and an icebreaker cocktail party. Who said cocktail parties have to be dull? The American Dietetic Association, meeting last fall in New Orleans, added a bit of drama to its opening reception by hiring sword balancers, portrait artists, strolling musicians?48 acts...
Mitch Reese barely knocked off Trinity's Rob Dudley in the afternoon's closest contest. Dudley took the first two sets but Reese clawed back, winning...
Residents of Adams House A-entry escaped unharmed yesterday afternoon from a fire which caused extensive damage to several rooms and forced the Adams dining hall manager to cancel lunch...