Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice on seven tapes delivered to Berkeley radio station KFPA, she had shown few signs of anger at the System. Before her disappearance, she was taking part in the most traditional of rites for an engaged American girl: happily picking out her china pattern. Then, on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, Patty's life changed forever...
...Examiner, recalled last week: "After a certain point, I think they were resigned to the fact that she wasn't going to turn herself in." To get away from "painful memories," the Hearsts moved into an apartment on San Francisco's Nob Hill; it was Feb. 20-Patty's 21st birthday. On Sept. 1, Randolph Hearst stepped down as editor and publisher of the Examiner; he remains the paper's president and chairman of the Hearst Corp., which controls eight newspapers as well as Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, Good Housekeeping and many other publishing properties...
...most of my generation will never forget Nov. 22. anyone around Los Angeles that day will never forget Feb. 9, 1971.1 was hitting the sack about 4 a.m., after entertaining some visiting firemen. An hour and 59 minutes later all hell broke loose. My first reaction was that some unforeseen force was trying to break down the walls of my room. It wasn't a nightmare; the building was moving...
Just such a disruption took place in many Chinese communities on Feb. 4, the day that an earthquake struck an industrialized area in Liaoning province. According to the Chinese publication Earthquake Frontiers, at 6 p.m. that day an announcement was made over the public-address system in the Kuan-t'un commune: "According to a prediction by the superior command, a strong earthquake will probably occur tonight. We insist that all people leave their homes and all animals leave their stables." As an added incentive for people to go outside, the commune leaders also announced that movies would...
Word of the lunch eventually got to CBS Newsman Daniel Schorr, who on Feb. 28 reported the President's concern about CIA assassination plots. Schorr's report stirred a mild sensation, and former CIA Director Richard Helms denounced the reporter as "Killer Schorr! Killer Schorr!" But by then the Rockefeller commission was well into its investigation, and its final report pleads -not too convincingly-that there was not enough time to examine the subject fully. Schorr refuses to identify his source...