Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volunteers grew peas, beans, buckwheat and flax, and raised chickens, goats, pigs and cattle. They kept bees in wicker hives for their honey, and traded pottery and baby goats to the film crew for rations of salt and butter. Food storage was a constant problem. At times, the group had to eat maggoty meat and cope with invasions of rats...
Lindsay recalls the pressure of confinement and the constant bickering during the experiment. "We had nothing else to take up our thinking time," she says. Still, she misses the animals and the plants, and the continuing story about trees that she told the children at nighttime around the fire. "It developed into a saga, and now that's gone." The children are less nostalgic. They now refer to the Celtic experience as a "silly time...
Despite police and National Guard protection, the truckers kept running scared. Many carried guns in their cabs and were in constant touch by CB radio, informing each other of the whereabouts of the roving caravans of strikers. Driver Roger Heubner, 30, had five of his eleven coal trucks burned in Boonville, Ind., in January. Last week he was carrying a 9-mm automatic pistol in his coat pocket. For Heubner, other truckers and the working coal miners, firearms had become, in effect, their union cards...
...back as the 1962 California campaign. Even before that, Haldeman had begun to create the extraordinarily successful techniques that would eventually bring Nixon to the White House. Haldeman tailored Nixon's schedule, his staff?even, to some extent, his family?to better market the strange man who was his constant candidate for 20 years. Even in Haldeman's 1962 campaign, dirty tricks were an established part of the Nixon mode...
Bitchiness seems to be a constant in the $25 million-a-year model biz, despite (or perhaps even because of) the fact that the financial rewards are rapidly increasing. Television has made a big difference; a top model will get $1,000 a day for shooting a commercial, and then twice that for each 13-week cycle the commercial runs, so that in a 21-month period she will make $15,000 for one day's work. There are other changes too. Highly paid "image girls" like Tiegs, whose faces become associated with several specific products, have come into fashion...