Word: alongers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troublesome border was drawn in 1774 when British authorities ordered a surveyor to set the line between the colonies of Canada and Vermont at the 45th parallel, the exact midline between the equator and the North Pole. Local historians have cited records of liquor rations brought along on the trip. And these explain why, they say, when the survey was through, the border was set more than a quarter of a mile too far north. But for that British rum, Derby Line would have been firmly in Canada for the past 205 years, and the border in an unsettled...
...trains running between New York and Florida. Those likely to be dropped: the Chicago-Miami Floridian, the New York-Kansas City National Limited, the Chicago-Seattle North Coast Hiawatha. Since the Senate bill resembles the one passed by the House, the Administration will probably grudgingly go along with the more limited cutback...
There is something bright and burning about this Republican camera nut and son-in-law of the late Dirksen. It is Baker's season. In six months he has come up ten to twelve points in the opinion polls. In the Kentucky hills and along the clear streams of Utah, when they take time to think about politics, there are unusual numbers of queries now about Howard Baker...
...went to Moscow and warned Leonid Brezhnev about the doubts the Senate had over SALT. He raised his questions back home, and his state of mind is crucial as the debate rumbles along. When Jimmy Carter came down from the mountaintop in his new leadership robes, Baker, who was not invited to the seminars, swallowed hard, but once again supported his political rival...
...Zambia is to avoid widespread famine, it will need 300,000 tons of corn by the end of the year. Kenya has offered 100,000 tons, but this would have to be transported-inefficiently, and perhaps tardily-by road from Kenya and then along the Tazara Railway. Thus Zambia is relying on South Africa for corn and on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia to deliver the food shipments by rail...