Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Behave yourself now," Jimmy Carter admonished his high school classmate Virginia Williams in front of the white clapboard railroad depot. "And if you get in trouble, don't call me." Then Virginia, her husband Frank and 380 other Plains folk boarded the 18 red-blue-and-silver cars of the Peanut Special-an Amtrak train leased for fun and bound for glory. At exactly 1 p.m., as Jimmy stood in the windy 10° F. weather, waving a gloved hand and flashing the famous teeth, the Peanut Special began to pull away from Plains-the first passenger train...
...Jersey, Governor Brendan Byrne summoned the state's nearly forgotten civil defense workers to canvass commercial buildings and offer advice on how to reduce gas usage. School Superintendent Frank Mastoraki of Bridgeton, N.J., played out an exhausting daily ritual that was becoming commonplace for many school officials. He asked local police to telephone him at 4 a.m. with information on road and weather conditions so that he could decide by 6 a.m. whether to open his schools on schedule. Alternating conditions of snow, ice and fog made roads perilous for students who drove cars or rode buses...
...avoid that, General Saiyud Kherdpol, director of the anti-guerrilla Internal Security Operations Command, has sketched a strategy for winning popular support. In a strikingly frank book, Thailand's Future, published last month, Saiyud concedes that military planners "always look at those who suffer and struggle for justice as Communists." He argues that the government must side with demands for reform in political, economic and administrative structures. Only by doing that, Saiyud feels, can the military undercut the insurgents' appeals and "keep the people from the influence of the enemy...
...York's Metropolitan Opera House. "We couldn't get it for less than $35,000," he notes sadly. For the opening night of Silver Streak, a comedy involving a runaway train, Zarem wanted a black-tie dinner in the middle of Grand Central Station. When Producer Frank Yablans balked, the party was held, more conventionally, at the posh Tavern-on-the-Green-another of Zarem's clients...
...California, New West Managing Editor Dick Adler quit in favor of Executive Editor Frank Lalli, but he characterized his staffs mood as "stunned equanimity." The staff of New West, New York's younger twin, had struck briefly the previous week in support of the New Yorkers, but they have decided to stay-in part because they want their magazine to survive and in part because Murdoch's presence is much less immediate. "It's expected that Murdoch will be something of an absentee landlord," says one writer...