Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected at two meetings open to all undergraduates last semester. Because they could not raise enough money to pay all travel and hotel costs, most of the Harvard delegates will stay in student's rooms at the University of Pennsylvania instead of with students from other colleges at a Holiday Inn in South Philadelphia...
...result of the agency's effort alone. The Shah saw it as a spontaneous movement on the part of the people. The truth lies between the two. Roosevelt certainly played an invaluable coordinating role (and the Shah rewarded him for it by taking him on a skiing holiday, all expenses paid, every year since the coup). The CIA provided money to buy the loyalty of the crowd and beyond this furnished the most important element of all for those loyal to the Shah--confidence that the United States supported them. But without a change in the direction of the political...
Peking's main thoroughfare, Ch'ang An Avenue, was decked out in holiday garb. Strings of red, pink, turquoise and yellow pennants fluttered gaily above the curb-to-curb crush of bicyclists and horn-tooting motorists, and bright red palace lanterns illuminated the Gate of Heavenly Peace. Not only in Peking but in every Chinese city, village and hamlet, the Lunar New Year celebration was under way last week...
...recent, harsher times, the Chinese were told to cut the holiday short and to avoid frivolity. This year, newspapers and radio stations urged them to have a good time, which was all the encouragement that they needed. Firecrackers began popping well in advance of the holiday. Shoppers thronged department stores and marketplaces. In the major cities they were able to choose from among 3,000 consumer items. Many had not been available before, ranging from enamelware to stretch socks...
...overtime trying to keep pace with demand. Curtis Barren, a Chicago AMC dealer, sold 37 four-wheel-drive Jeeps in five days (vs. a typical three or four). And with so many offices and factories idle, tens of thousands of housebound workers found themselves with a few days of holiday they had not expected. Governor James Thompson, after appealing to President Carter to declare 22 northern Illinois counties a disaster area, took a vacation - to Florida. After two days of being roasted by the local press, he flew back into Chicago to suffer along with his constituents as they received...