Word: aires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tran Thanh Khiem, who is only six, was one of the first off the plane in Des Moines. He was very much alone, temporarily separated from his parents on the plane, and missing his name tag. The air was a brisk 45° F with gusty winds, but his lip was trembling out of fear. Then he spotted his father, Tran Van Duoc, hurrying toward him. They were bused to an assembly center where they met Larry and Carol Bailey, representatives of their American sponsor-the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Belmond (pop. 2,500)-who would help...
...thirty a.m.--an ungodly hour in anyone's estimation, but especially so on a Saturday morning. Not even Elsie's is open. Birds chirp raucously and the light attar of apple blossoms tinctures the air. A crowd of about 50--rubbing sleep from their eyes--has repaired to the banks of the Charles, attired in everything from jeans to tails and derby...
...sleep with Norman until he came around. From friends and colleagues of Ed Murrow, Halberstam relates the details of CBS chairman Bill Paley's horning-in on the memorial program to Murrow the day after he died--when it was Paley who had virtually forced Murrow off the air...
...subject which he's writing about. In 1975, as a communications law expert at UCLA, Cowan served as a legal consultant to Norman Lear and the Writers Guild of America. He worked on the Guild's Family Hour--that self-imposed beast the networks adopted promising they would not air "entertainment programming inappropriate for viewing by a general family audience "between 7 and 9 p.m. Cowan tries to use the lawsuit as the background for a discussion of censorship on television and the unique problems the medium faces. But he gets lost in a series of meetings that could give...
...jousting tournament. The third annual Cambridge River Festival kicks off Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on Cambridge Common when Rufus Harley, the world's only jazz bagpiper, leads a procession to the Charles River for its official dedication on the National Register of Historic Places. A seven-story hot-air balloon will be inflated, and 300 homing pigeons will be released...