Word: del
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office is careful with some students who may potentially cause roommate problems and make sure that these students are matched first for the best possible combinations. Similarly, a well-adjusted person who has lived for a year with the AFS in a damp dungeon in Tierra Del Fuego, may be one of the final draft picks. "That doesn't mean he will be put in a damp basement at Harvard, however," Young assures...
...mailbox remains an odd "private federal preserve, established and maintained at the expense of the individual owner," as the Evening Journal of Wilmington, Del., recently complained. Rural homeowners will have to go on putting up with such advice as is contained in Form 4056: "Your mailbox needs attention." But the Postal Service still offers the time-honored advice that whatever the restrictions, "this does not mean that you may not meet your carrier at the door if you desire and greet him as cordially as ever." After all, he probably has a mailbox...
Another observer, spotting a bus-trailer combine on a dusty back road in India, ? guessed that it must be a fancy transport for carrier pigeons. Equally baffled reactions greet Rotels wherever they turn up, from Tehran to Tierra del Fuego. Rotels? It is short for "rolling hotels," which may be the ultimate in no frill, if-it's-Tuesday-it-must-be-Kenya world travel...
Last spring a venerable steam locomotive pulling 25 red, white and blue cars chugged out of Wilmington, Del., on a 17,000-mile, two-year Bicentennial tour of the U.S. It was the American Freedom Train, a private, nonprofit project financed through $5 million in gifts from five U.S. corporations and billed as "a birthday gift to the American people." The train carried a somewhat indiscriminate array of American artifacts: George Washington's copy of the Constitution, the agreement for the Louisiana Purchase, Will Rogers' lariat, Judy Garland's dress from the Wizard of Oz and Kareem...
...message was initiated by C. Herbert Clemens, professor of Mathematics at Columbia University and former professor of Mathematics at Universidad Tecnica del Estado...