Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story on Evangelicals and their message of faith is appropriate for Christmas. We offer it with our warm good wishes for the holiday season...
Congress recessed last week for a month-long holiday without enacting his energy bill, and Carter called that the "only major failure" of his legislative program in 1977. But he had reason to believe, as he told his press conference, that Congress would complete action "early next year." Indeed, Senate and House conferees were coming closer to compromise. While Carter certainly would not get all he wants, and industry would not get all it wants either in terms of incentives, he had set the nation on the path toward sensible conservation and development of energy...
...Coeds in four-story Aquinas Hall, the largest women's dormitory at Rhode Island's Providence College, had stopped their late-night cramming for final exams to engage in a bit of holiday fun. Competing for a $100 prize for the most elaborately decorated dorm, students on the top floor of the 38-year-old building pasted gaily colored tissue paper and Christmas posters on the walls and hung crepe-paper streamers from the ceilings. One coed scrawled MERRY CHRISTMAS with spray snow on the windows; another adjusted a gooseneck desk lamp to shine on a cardboard nativity...
Weird and wonderful things go on sale during the holiday season, from His and Her windmills ($16,000 each) at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas to 15-lb. boxes of Irish peat ($14.90), which one Rhode Islander is advertising as Yule fuel. This year one can even buy a turkey dinner-buy dinner, that is, for Meleagris gallapavo, the American wild turkey. The offer comes from the Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary on Martha's Vineyard, where as many as 650 wild ducks, geese and turkeys peck through 200 Ibs. of corn, oats, wheat and high-protein dog food...
...life. The principal ooze, from the Venpet's fuel reserves, formed an ocean slick six miles long and two miles wide. Fortunately, the Venoil's oil compartments were not punctured; a strong southwesterly wind, moreover, prevented the oil from drifting toward South Africa's coastal holiday beaches 22 miles away...