Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Never before in history has a country had to introduce electricity, running water, telephones, telex and color television all at the same time...
...Sara DuPont, known as champions of progressive causes since before historians dignified those years as an "era." Luscomb and DuPont had shared the days when advocating reform often meant speaking from soapboxes to mangy dogs and small boys on universal suffrage, civil rights for Americans of every race and color, and the claim each man or woman had to earning a decent wage...
Haldeman was assigned last week to general maintenance work in Lompoc's power plant. His eight-hour shift begins at 7:50 a.m. Mitchell must go through an orientation week before receiving his assignment, but is expected to be given clerical duties in the prison where his color photograph was once prominently displayed beside Nixon's. The wardens in the two institutions insist that neither man will receive special treatment, but Mitchell was routed away from the minimum security camp at Allenwood, Pa., where he normally would have gone. Reason: Allenwood is now overcrowded, and federal officials feared...
...Brezhnev, known as a car buff, had received an automobile as a present. This time the French decided to give him not one, but two: a Matra Simca Bagheera sports model and a Matra Rancho cross-country station wagon. But the new Soviet President was not pleased with the color of the trim on the wagon's seats (tan) and its exterior (green). Mortified French officials rushed the vehicle back to its manufacturer, where assemblymen worked frantically on reupholstery (brown) and a new paint job (blue...
...Pops's performance, a magnificent fireworks display will be launched over the Charles River. This is scheduled to begin at 10:30 p.m. Sources tell me that all spectators will be required to sing the lyrics from the Wonderful World of Disney, "The world is a carousel of color, color, color...