Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HENRY ("Bismarck") KISSINGER, p. veteran: Claims to stand above league affiliations; even refuses to wear a uniform--but they couldn't win without him; out of the Harvard minor league system; confesses to being a loner, "I just don't like people...
...that would probably have brought a total of $14,000. A neighbor heard the power saws at work and phoned police, who arrested the thieves. Such arrests are the exception, though, since guarding parks or forests is nearly impossible. "Some owners sleep by their lots," said a policeman in Bismarck, N.D. "But last night it was 18° below zero...
...Messiah." Freud claimed that he had seen Herzl in a dream before they met. Others were less impressed. The Emperor Franz Josef, proud of his nation's liberal airs, fumed: "What would have become of this ungrateful Herzl had there not been equality of rights for Jews?" Bismarck considered Zionism no more than "melancholy reveries." Even the Rothschilds saw Herzl as a crank and refused him funds...
...horse-drawn train and a vintage locomotive given prominent play in the Baltimore Sun. As in 1830, the horse won. Late editions of the Los Angeles Times featured a lead story documenting a less-than-earth-shaking expose of the low standards for scuba-diving instruction, and the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune snagged readers with a seven-column head declaring: FEWER SPECIAL DEER PERMITS AVAILABLE. The Swing is a slightly manic but welcome return to normalcy after a grateful escape from the long hail of bulletins issuing from Washington. No news might even last long enough to become boring, though...
PREACHING ECONOMY. "Theology books used to be about $4.95," says the Rev. James Butler, 59, of the First Presbyterian Church in Bismarck, N. Dak. "Now they are $7, $8 or $10. You have to gulp before you buy." Because collections have not kept pace with inflation, Butler has been forced to cut the church's projects and staff to a minimum. When the parsonage fell into disrepair, the Butlers themselves repainted it and pasted up new wallpaper. "The estimates from contractors were just too high," recalls Mrs. Butler. "We didn't want the church to have...