Word: booths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them go until they bring back the $3 billion they have hidden abroad." His daughter Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 30, who ran for the Senate, turned up in the smaller towns to buy rice, yucca and corn at the marketplace. Then she set up a booth to resell them at a half or a third of the price, telling everyone, "This is how much it will cost after...
Sniffed & Scrutinized. At the Rutgers-Cornell research center, people brought samples of spotted leaves and soil specimens, flooded the information booth with questions. Sample: How do you keep your neighbor's dog out of the tulip patch? The Rutgers student's wry reply: "Good fences make good nosegays." At the Burpee Co.'s seed counter, pretty salesgirls showed off the new topper snapdragons, which now come in every shade from lavender to orange. Other new seeds for the season: Burpee's new two-tone Whirligig zinnias and a Yellow Nugget marigold (see color pages), a large...
...rate, re-election is the least for Young's worries, and at 76 he is freed of the politically constraining effects of ambition. His age also permits him to indulge his one really wild eccentricity without fear of voting-booth reprisals. When Young is displeased by a letter--whether or not it comes from a constituent--he writes a thoroughly nasty response. For example: "Dear Sir: It appears to me that you have been grossly misinformed, or are exceedingly stupid. Which...
When it comes to past political figures, however, the papers are less sensitive. "Speaking of John Wilkes Booth, history may have done him wrong," Tom Ethridge wrote recently. "Mrs. Lincoln had accused Honest Abe of flirting with a cute actress in the play he was watching. There was an argument. Mary Lincoln drew a .44 derringer from her handbag and fired the fatal shot. John Wilkes Booth happened to pass the presidential box at that moment. Being a true Southern gentleman, he gallantly took the rap for the first lady...
Other possible capital improvements range from a $6 million overhaul of the City sewers to the construction of a new $20,000 information booth in Harvard Square...