Word: hails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he has been given since he won the 1968 nomination in Miami. He was among his own people, 14,000 Jaycees and wives-the Kansans in white cowboy hats, the Indianians in referees' jackets with little whistles around their necks, the Iowans in yellow Tyrolean hats. After Hail to the Chief, Nixon waved his arms through a roaring seven-minute ovation...
Mothers want to reform him. Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears on the playing field. Another Joe Namath? Not at all. George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: "Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger...
...less than a month. It also illustrated that the new government's hate campaign against Vietnamese nationals has not abated. At one point, the Cambodians marched a column of 100 Vietnamese Catholics into Saang in order to expose Communist positions; several were cut down in the expected hail of enemy fire. As similar atrocities continued last week, the Saigon government dispatched officials to Phnom-Penh to negotiate possible repatriation of the 500,000 Vietnamese living in Cambodia...
...Bravo! After shooting arrows into the air for the last few years, TIME has hit a bull's-eye in giving Jesse Jackson national attention of a positive nature. All hail the militantly constructive American who can make the strides that Jesse Jackson has made, albeit peaceably, and with the help of fellow ministers. No bowing and scraping to the do-gooder politicians for a man like Jesse, nor faulty accusations either...
...Peggy Loewe had a wonderful trip?until the plane touched down in the U.S. The flight landed right on time, but there was a 45-minute wait for a parking ramp at Kennedy Airport. After trying in vain to hail a taxi (said a policeman: "Ya gotta be aggressive here, lady"), she boarded the crowded airport bus for a jostling ride to Manhattan's East Side Airlines Terminal, which is located away from almost everything. She waited in a long line for a taxi, then shared it with three strangers (all of whom paid full fare). At Grand Central Station...