Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bravo for your feature on Washington and Dixy [Dec. 12]. You have captured the essence of our life-style and the beauty of our state. Yes we have problems, but God has granted us so much good that these problems seem surmountable...
...fire-insurance adjuster in Minnesota, I can see benefits of the wood stove [Dec. 5] to the homeowner and disaster to the small insurance companies. You wouldn't believe the wild ideas people have. Cheap little stoves that get red hot. Good stoves too near the walls-so the heat sets fire to the dwelling. Stovepipes plugged into old or too short chimneys. They all spell unwanted fire...
...wouldn't dream of evaluating the sincerity of Smut Dealer Larry Flynt's conversion to being a Hustler for the Lord [Dec. 5]. But if Flynt has truly become a devotee of the "Big Boy upstairs," all I can say is that there must be some truth in the saying "miracles never cease...
...story, and David Holden, 53, the London Sunday Times's distinguished chief foreign correspondent, interrupted a leave of absence to be on the scene. With the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks still eight days off, he flew into Cairo from Jordan on the night of Dec. 6. He had his passport stamped, cashed $200 in traveler's checks and strode out of the airport. About eight hours later Holden's body was found beside a road near the airport, his pockets empty, the labels ripped off his tailor-made suit and a single bullet hole in his back...
...month passed. Silence. Then came a computer printout from HEW, reminding Sears to return the form and once more threatening a cutoff of funds. Beckwith again wrote to explain why he had not filled out the form. On Dec. 2, a HEW secretary phoned him to repeat the warning. Her call was followed by one from a HEW attorney, who expressed regret at "the sequence of events" but told Beckwith that HEW would nevertheless cite his school for failure to complete the form...