Word: holidayers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town's name on theie letterheads. A few outsiders, slick or not, have made more substantial investments. A group of Canadian investors recently purchased 190 acres of farm land outside town for $325,000. They hope to install a campground and amusement park. A Georgia representative of Holiday Inns has looked into building a small motel on the highway between Plains and Americus...
...images go, you can't beat it: the Goodyear blimp suddenly looming large and low-much too low-over the Orange Bowl. To turn that benign and stately symbol of the country in a holiday mood into an instrument of unpredictable menace is a stroke of Pop-cult genius. If the blimp can run amuck, even in fantasy, what is there left that we can rely...
Tournament week is an official holiday for many schools, and the players, their chaperones and supporters checked into hotel rooms that had been booked for a year. They commandeered entire floors, lugging hair curlers, stereo tape decks and stuffed mascots. One coach brought along a toaster to ensure breakfast for his flock. Between forays to Frankel's clothing store to gawk at the array of trophies-including the 3ft.-high bronze totem for the winning team-the girls decorated hallways with flowers and telegrams sent by fans back home...
...peace and love brings the family of Henry II together only to do violence to one another. Their weapons are their wounds: old snubs and older betrayals. The law they fight under is the law of the jungle, where only the strong and the cunning survive from one holiday to the next, and the prize they contest is the crown, emblem of land and power...
...OPEC ministers in Vienna (TIME, Jan. 5, 1976). Verfassungsschutz advised Interatom of Traube's dubious friendships; they decided against dismissing him immediately on the theory that he might go underground and threaten nuclear revenge. Nine days after the OPEC raid, an agent interrupted Traube on a skiing holiday at St. Moritz to ask him about Klein; meanwhile, others broke into his home and planted...