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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catching an airplane at most major European airports last week was a little like participating in military maneuvers. London's busy Heathrow was boxed by tanks with cannons uncovered and Grenadier Guards in battle kit. Rome's Ciampino had a sandbagged machine gun nest atop its control tower manned by helmeted carabinieri. Armed Jeeps escorted aircraft along the runways of Orly outside Paris, while 850 flics and special riot troopers kept suspicious eyes on passenger traffic inside the terminal. Everywhere from Amsterdam to Athens there were gun-toting guards and behind them, plainclothes marksmen...
...style by a pillbox chapeau. But the imperious stare, the twitching extremities and the spindly silhouette of Bob Dylan, 32, belied the Bedouin disguise. The erstwhile revolutionary folkie, rock-'n 'roll innovator and countrified cop-out was back after an eight-year absence from concert touring. Perched atop a hotel couch in Philadelphia (the second of 21 cities in his current six-week tour), Dylan was solidly re-ensconced as the reigning song-poet laureate of young America...
...shivering cold atop Manhattan's Empire State Building last week, a hardy band of amateur astronomers were asked by a television interviewer what they thought of Kohoutek's comet. "Flop of the century!" they agreed unanimously. At a comet party near Chicago, Astronomer J. Allen Hynek explained away the weak drink that he was serving his 800 guests. "A fake punch for a fake comet," he said...
...days the Herald, the Globe and the Record would take turns once a week writing a story about how Tom Sanders was the most underrated basketball player in the N.B.A., the best defensive forward in basketball, unfairly over-shadowed by high scorers. Tom Sander's Number 16 dangles from atop the Boston Garden right beside the 6 and 14 of immortals Bill Russell and Bob Cousy...
When bulldozers began clearing ground for a parking lot last November, Hong Kong government engineers expected no obstacles greater than some boulders and a few scruffy trees. They reckoned that the parking site, on a hill atop the tiny border village of Lok Ma Chau, would enable busloads of tourists to view China conveniently from the hill's observation post...