Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buffalo, a local man, Charles Smith, 23, held his 18-month-old daughter hostage at knifepoint in an attempt to hijack an American Airlines 707 at Greater Buffalo International airport. He had previously stabbed his estranged wife and her boy friend, neither fatally, before FBI agents, relatives and ministers talked him into surrendering...
...remember one from my high school days in the early 1950s. The Indian chief said to his assembled tribe during a famine: "I have good news and bad news. First the bad news: there's nothing to eat but buffalo dung. Now the good news: there's plenty of buffalo dung...
...Hospital in Memphis told an American Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute meeting in New York that this dual approach may ultimately lead to a cure for childhood leukemia. Of 30 youngsters to undergo the treatment, 18 have enjoyed complete relief for at least 3½ years. Dr. James Holland of Buffalo reported success with a straight chemotherapeutic approach. Twenty-seven children were treated with drug combinations during the past 3½ years; only one has died...
...fault of American Indians that eagles are more endangered than the buffalo today. It's the fault of people like the Wyoming rancher who slaughtered 50 eagles with the help of a hired gunman and a helicopter...
...Roger Kahn's book The Boys of Summer reprises the great, winning days of the '50s Brooklyn Dodgers. Revivals of '50s rock 'n' roll-arguably the decade's only cultural contribution-have become a regular feature at rock emporiums. Even Buffalo Bob Smith of TV's old Howdy Doody show made a comeback on campuses last year, and is still hanging on with a singing radio commercial for Riunite wine (TIME, April...