Word: clipboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walked down the gang-plank carrying a night-bag in one hand and a stack of legal pads on a clipboard cradled in her other arm. Earlier that August morning she had been sitting in her mother's kitchen in Birmingham, Alabama. Within 48 hours, she would be asleep in Moscow, perhaps dreaming of airports or roses. Inside the Atlanta terminal Hosea Williams pointed out the window at the deboarded passengers. "It's her," he said...
...muscle shirt and large gold earrings that slapped and patted her checks as the walked. As she approached the terminal, a photographer from one of the newsmagazines positioned himself by the door. Seeing him through the glass, she opened the door with her face hidden from him by her clipboard. Agreeably resigned, he dropped his camera to his chest. As she passed, she Jowered her clipboard and smiled...
...McGovern's young minions is Gene Pokorny, 26, a scholarly Nebraskan who, says Campaign Manager Gary Hart, has "the mind of a revolutionist in the body of Henry Aldrich." Dispatched to Wisconsin a year ago on a salary of $200 a month, he tirelessly crisscrossed the state with clipboard and index cards in hand, organizing and opening 39 McGovern headquarters. When it was discovered that voting day fell during campus spring vacations, Pokorny ran forms in student newspapers which could be exchanged for absentee ballots. By election day an estimated 70% of the students cast their votes for McGovern...
This week, with Mangrum's accident, the unexpected lingering on of Scanlon's and Rayner's injuries, and the expected reading period blahs, Lee has been scurrying to and from his clipboard, shuffling and reshuffling an evershrinking list of wrestlers in an attempt to put together a lineup for C.C.N.Y...
...back the Communists by six months to a year. Certainly, a case can be made that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong have suffered a severe reversal merely because they know that their sanctuaries are no longer immune. But as for the statistics being churned out by the clipboard-toting cache counters now roaming the sanctuaries, their importance is clouded by two facts: 1) nobody knows how much the Communists had stashed away to begin with; 2) as yet, the allies have managed to search only 5% of the 7,000 sq. mi. of borderlands. In some cases, the numbers...