Word: bashings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closing time, 11:30 a.m., at least 302 people have come out for the book bash-65% of the town's population. To achieve comparable participation in a civic outing, Indianapolis would have to send forth 451,000 people, New York City 4,550,000. The turnout seems amazing. Somnolent in its pleasant, maple-shaded neighborhoods and moribund elsewhere, Claypool is a place where a visitor is surprised at any conspicuous display of activity. On Main Street, the general store has been spruced up, but just opposite the only gas station stands closed and dusty. Jim and Lynda Snyder...
...birthday bash for the Queen...
...spotlight of publicity turned briefly on Sierra Leone earlier this month, when the Organization of African Unity met in the tiny (pop. 4 million) West African state and installed its President, Siaka Stevens, as the O.A.U.'s chairman for the coming year. But when the big bash was over, Sierra Leone was left with more problems than ever: an authoritarian government, a languishing economy, all-pervasive corruption and $200 million in bills from the summit conference. As TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack E. White discovered during a visit to Sierra Leone, the country's plight is disturbingly similar...
...nerve even showing up in this city." But there he was smack-dab and unrepentant in Detroit, the capital of an auto industry that has been forced to lay off one-third of its workers. While the Republicans were getting ready to throw their big bash and coronation, Carter swept through town en route to Japan and illustrated the power of a President to steal headlines from his opponents by acting on problems they can only denounce...
...legend isn't as well-known as it might be, in part because there is little proof, and in part because there is so much else for the city to pride itself on. Cambridge too is celebrating its 350th, a year-long bash commemorating the city that gave birth not only to endless generations of Harvard scholars but also the Porterhouse steak, the Polaroid Land camera, and the proportional representation election. "Boston is the biggest suburb of Cambridge," former mayor Edward Crane '35 was fond of declaring; indeed, few cities of 100,000 have had an impact so large...