Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Trouble. Demonstrating that hearts and minds policy, some days earlier Trudeau put in an appearance in Quebec at the annual holiday honoring St. Jean Baptiste, the province's patron saint. There, Quebec Premier René Lévesque also happens to be making big trouble for Trudeau on the most explosive issue in officially bilingual Canada: language rights. A fundamental goal of Lévesque's party is that Quebec "will be the country of a people that speaks French." Stripped of secessionist overtones, that aim makes great sense to many of the 4.8 million French-speaking Quebeckers...
...Says Guy Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Water Resources: "The major environmental effect of this pipeline and the road that parallels it is that they're there." With them come nightmares of a pipeline road spotted with McDonald's drive-ins, Exxon stations, Holiday Inns, 7-Eleven stores and the other trappings of mobile America...
...Party, convinced that the Communists were more of a threat outside the system than in it?and aware that there would be protests in Western Europe if they were barred from political participation. In a deft stroke of timing, he chose Easter weekend, when most of Spain was on holiday, to act. So stunning was the news that the Radio Nacional announcer sputtered through the first bulletin in disbelief...
...handsome new Fan Club, of which one patron says proudly, "It's trashy enough to be New York, only straighter." Miami has the pulsating Palm Room in the fashionable Palm Bay Club. Disco-mania has spread to the suburbs of New York, Los Angeles and Atlanta, to Holiday Inns and department store basements. There is hardly a disco owner who is sure that his place will last, given the mercurial nature of the trade. Few, however, doubt that discomania is here to stay. As Himmel puts it, "A good disco is a place where people can do what they...
Hilltop Fires. Cynics dismissed the Jubilee as an exercise in irrelevance at best and a needless extravagance at worst. A fairer view was that Britons-in a mood for a holiday from such irksome problems as inflation, unemployment, trade-union troubles and political woes-genuinely wanted to pay affectionate tribute to a gracious lady who has been a symbol of stability, humane decency and traditional values during one of her nation's most difficult quarter-centuries...