Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recovery period need not engender new national egotism. It need not mean the rhapsodic nonsense of The Greening of America, nor the belligerency of the brass-collar Americans. It could instead produce a new sense of reality. What is needed is a civilian DMZ, where the polarized Americans can gather, a place somewhere be tween the moral amnesia of those who would totally forget the war and those who proclaim a perpetual, self-lacerating mea culpa that would take the place of progress. Perhaps this war has bro ken the rules of history. No one can be sure...
THERE was a quiet flurry on the morning of Lyndon Johnson's burial. A little more than might be expected for the normal funeral in and around Johnson City, Texas, but no hint of frenzy. Death is a part of life there. The people always gather when one of their own dies, drawn together by the profound humanness that gives these tiny clusters the strength to cling, generation after generation, in the wash of the Great Plains...
...Come on over, I've got some fried chicken,' " recalled Mrs. Gliddon. "He used to sit right here in this kitchen. He'd tell me, 'Miss Stella, I like your fried chicken better than anything in the world.' " When the Gliddon girls would gather with friends, Lyndon would show up to pester them. "But you know," Mrs. Gliddon said, looking out at cold clouds, "even in playing, Lyndon would look out for the underdog...
...addition to the Washington demonstration, a large, peaceful antiwar march will take place in Boston this Friday, starting at 11:30 a.m. in front of the State House on the Boston Common. A contingent from the Harvard area will gather at Forbes Plaza at 11:00 a.m. and proceed to the State House by subway. The March has been called by the January 19th Committee--a coalition of Boston-area antiwar groups. It will be followed by cultural activities in the Old West Church and an evening teach-in at M.I.T...
...according to predictions, it did contain one embarrassment for economists: housing starts, which were widely expected to decline, instead rose 15%, to a record 2,400,000 units. Undaunted, economists are again forecasting a slowdown in 1973, and this time it seems that they will be correct. As builders gather in Houston this week for the annual convention of the National Association of Home Builders, many concede that the industry cannot keep up the 1972 pace. Housing starts are expected to slip by 8% to 17%, to a range of 2,000,000 to 2,200,000; one recent Government...