Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neil, commander of the New York police bomb squad: "If this is political activity, it has gone for naught because we have had no one authentically claim the act... So they have killed for no reason whatever...
...additions to a recent phenomenon: the Ford joke. As an accident-prone President with an amiable but bumbling style, Ford has become a straight man for columnists, gagwriters and partygoers. Ford has "become the country's leading target for jokes," Show Biz Chronicler Earl Wilson wrote last week. "Gone was all reverence for the No. 1 position in the land." The Washington Post's Nicholas von Hoffman called Ford "President Klutz," "Mr. Ten Thumbs," "the Great Flub-Dub" and "Old Bungle-Foot," all in a single column, and wondered whether he would become "the first President...
Washington is a lovely city at the end of the year. The President, Congress and a goodly portion of the other population are gone. The capital is left to legend and memories and elegantly decorated old buildings that have watched the republic's progress almost from the beginning...
...rather than to the Russians. Nonetheless, the Soviets have built an oil refinery and a 1,000-student polytechnical institute, and Nigeria, despite its strong ties to the West, has turned to the U.S.S.R. for warplanes and has sent 700 students to study in Soviet universities. Zambia too has gone to the Soviets for arms, as has Sierra Leone. Moscow is arming Rhodesian black insurgents based in Tanzania and Mozambique and members of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), which is fighting against South Africa's control of South West Africa (Namibia...
...strenuous activities were filmed for a TV spectacular that was designed to show the health and vigor of Josip Broz Tito, 83. The demonstration was convincing, up to a point. There are no more rumors in Belgrade these days that the Yugoslav President is suffering from some deadly disease. Gone also are the whispers that he is no longer fully in charge of the multinational Communist country he forged in 1945 and holds together by the force of his personal prestige. Still, awareness of Tito's mortality was heightened in Belgrade by Francisco Franco's death in November...