Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually, gasoline prices may rise so high that vacationers will simply not be able to afford long drives to overpopulated parks. They may seek out, instead, wild areas closer to home that have 'been bypassed by the Winnebago set. Such spots can be discovered almost anywhere and are worth the effort. Finding one, as 22-year-old Mike McCorkle of Montgomery, Ala., said on first sighting the Grand Canyon, is "sorta like sex. They's some things better and some things worse, but they ain't nothin' exactly like...
...even the flap over whether Rocky would be a political drag for Ford next year upset the Vice President very long. As a result and after a cozy helicopter flight with the President, Rockefeller and Ford may be closer than ever. Ford and his new campaign manager, Howard ("Bo") Callaway, the former Secretary of the Army and conservative Georgia Congressman, had wanted to try to disarm the militant right-wingers of the G.O.P., who still dislike Rocky. But Callaway's quite correct assessments that the Vice President's "liberalism" and age would be political problems in 1976 caused...
...Isabel Perón-the positions that had made him the most powerful man in Argentina. Mrs. Perón, who has erratically governed the country since the death of her husband a year ago, was clearly in poor physical and emotional health. Argentina seemed to be teetering ever closer to economic collapse...
...higher-pitched than his brother, though fortunately not as high-strung. He can be seen frequently at the People's Bank--Coolidge--standing in line like one of the, um, people, although a discreet peek at the blue paper in his skinny hand reveals that he may be closer to the corpulent and feline species. Anyway, he banks there, and his concerts are really pleasant--he's charming, sings funny songs, and has a good amateurish style. And his feel for the North Carolina whence the Taylors come (oh, alright, Chapel Hill) is better and earthier than his brother...
...contact lenses did not work, so he gave them up. He cannot abide a dictating machine, and so writes his memos with his left hand, longhand. He eschews anything to do with guns, even trapshooting. While he keeps a watch on the University of Michigan teams, he keeps closer ties with his teen-age football mates, the Trojans of South High School...