Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cities across the land, it panders to the new permissiveness. Rent a model-in-the-raw, only $15 for 30 minutes of poses of your choice, camera provided, film and processing slightly extra. But the Blue Orchid is a little different. In the orange-carpeted room where models await customers, the bookcase is filled with such unlikely tomes as Integrated Principles of Zoology and Quantitative Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Reason: of the roster of male and female models depicted in the Blue Orchid's well-thumbed selection album, 70 men and 140 women are students at nearby Wayne State University, working...
...dead end for a new road. Even more surprisingly, he has written a play that is a bit of a bore, though the bulk of the reviews have been favorable.* It is a three-character play. Deeley (Robert Shaw) and Kate (Mary Ure) are husband and wife. They await the visit of Anna (Rosemary Harris), Kate's friend and roommate of 20 years before. She appears, and the three begin a cat-and-mouse game with memory...
...there are few details of the program available to quibble about. Connally, an undisputed expert at counting votes?and still a Democrat?offers this assessment: "At this stage there are no political shortcomings in the program that would justify a frontal attack. The critics are going to have to await any flaws." Adds Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "I think we should give the President every support we possibly can. We should not shoot from the hip, and we should forget politics...
...Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen was free to strike last week as Government-imposed restraints expired. Though a strike that would snarl the nation's rail system is possible, the indications are that the signalmen will await the outcome of contract talks involving the larger shopcraft unions before pressing their demands. They want at least a 54% increase in their $3.78 an hour wage over three years...
...Mike Mansfield's amendment calling for complete troop withdrawal within six months after an agreement to release American P.O.W.s passed for the second time this year. The original amendment, tied to the draft-extension bill, was watered down in the House-Senate Conference Committee; a similar fate could await the second amendment. Although the amendment is not binding on President Nixon, its passage carries an unmistakable message to the White House: despite the week's defeats, the doves are still capable of mustering Senate sentiment against the long, dreary...