Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fair trial in the Senate." Jannuzi still believes, as he has from the beginning, that Nixon was destroyed by his enemies. "What I would like to know," said Sahli, "is where the impeachment thing started. I have the feeling that somebody put some money behind it." The Rev. George Carson, 52, pastor of the Trinity United Presbyterian Church, said that some of his parishioners were "greatly sorrowed." The minister himself is ambivalent: "In many ways the man has been misjudged, but he did make some errors...
Daily Alibis. There were early signs of trouble in Freelandia. Employees grumbled about mismanagement, and 85% of the flights were canceled. Nonetheless, in late November, Moss landed a guest spot on the Johnny Carson show, after which membership jumped...
...Navajo Reservation stretches across 16 million acres of sagebrush desert and red sandstone mesas in three Southwestern states-Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. The land was ceded to the Navajos in 1868, after the Indians had been battered into submission by Colonel Kit Carson. Today the reservation is in effect a separate nation-state, subject to neither state laws nor taxes. It is frontier country, where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power...
...during the Depression. Commercial country was born in the 1920s out of an amalgamation of American folk, British airs and hymns, and Negro gospel and blues. The New York record companies sent their men South to make wax discs of such performers as Samantha Bumgarner and Fiddlin' John Carson. Then they found the Carter Family, hillbilly virtuosos from Virginia, and the first idol of country, Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933). Country was off and running...
...city and a rambling old beach house in Grand Beach, Mich., where he keeps a small sailboat, scuba gear and water skis. Beyond that, there is the puckish Greeley to cheer the melancholy Greeley up: "The only time I really feel lonely is when I leave Johnny Carson on for more than ten minutes...