Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer is safari season. To many Americans, the word safari (Swahili for journey) still conjures up a vision of Stewart Granger beating bravely through the bush, trailed by the wealthy, red-faced "Bwana Mkubwa" (Big Boss), his bored, flirtatious wife and a long line of naked natives with rifles, cook pots and bathtubs balanced on their heads. A more accurate vision is apt to be somewhat less theatrical. Outside Nairobi's new circular Hilton Hotel (the "Tiltin' Hilton"), a gaggle of middleaged, middle-class Americans clamber into a zebra-striped minibus. Whisked off to a government-operated park...
...Beach and Tracy Cook, make up another Harvard-Radcliffe team. Beach is sports editor of the CRIMSON. He looks, like all CRIMSON staffers, as if he hadn't had a square meal in weeks. Beach doesn't give a damn about the contest, he is there to handle hunger. He devours pancakes frantically. When will Beach get his next square meal...
...make it often get restless and long to return to their reservation families for spiritual renewal. Many do so, abruptly abandoning jobs. It is the lure of the land, most often, that proves irresistible. "They used to tell me that the land is like your mother," explains Tom Cook, a 21-year-old Mohawk. "The trees are your brothers, as are the birds in the air and the fish in the water. They give you life; they give you food; they give you everything. It was so pretty the way my grandmother used to tell it." Cook attends college...
...bitterly cold. After work, many Czechoslovaks immediately get into bed under eiderdowns in an effort to keep warm. Even the hospitals are so poorly heated that doctors and nurses bundle up in sweaters while patients are covered with all available blankets. At first, many Czechoslovaks used their gas cooking stoves to heat their dwellings. Now the gas supply is so low that many Prague housewives cook lunch at breakfast time, knowing that later in the day there will not be enough gas pressure even to boil water...
...Wise had left his post at the cash register ostensibly to go to the bathroom. He did not return. At 7:10 the short-order cook called Feltman, reporting the missing manager and money...