Word: depot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town's local maverick is Gregory Joannidi, former head of the local Democratic Club ("all six of us"). Joannidi owns the concessions at the San Clemente Greyhound bus depot, including the clothing store, a cafeteria and assorted pinball games. "These big shots, the President, Agnew, they mean nothing to me," Joannidi says. "All I know is I'm losing business." Joannidi's business comes from the Marines on weekend passes from nearby Camp Pendleton. When Nixon is in town, 1,000 fewer Marines get passes-allegedly the number kept on tap in case the President is attacked...
...trains' destination was the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point, N.C., a sprawling, 8,500-acre depot that exists only to process ammunition. Each year 1.3 million tons of munitions pass through the base. So careful are the procedures that since 1955, when the base was completed, not a single man working there has lost his life...
...remove the chemical munitions at a cost of $6,000,000. Packed in special metal containers, the weapons were to be shipped in late May on five transports to Bangor, Wash. They would then be loaded on twelve specially equipped trains and finally stored at the Umatilla Army Depot in Hermiston, Ore., where the local townspeople made no objections...
...closed in February after only two performances. But his widespread popularity as the voice of a new Soviet generation has clearly survived undiminished. "His main quality is his being unfettered," writes Soviet Author Valentin Katayev in an introduction to the new volume. "The books of Voznesensky are always a depot of metaphors...
...Shadow of Sound is also a depot -or perhaps a birdcage-for a series of picture poems in which words are arranged in the shapes of their subjects. The poet, for instance, ends a sun-washed reverie ("I love to enter the aureole of light/where there are no boundaries") with the image: "The seagull is the bikini of God." Then he recasts these words to form a picture poem...