Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After three days of debate, Tunney & Co. won, 54 to 22. The House vote will probably come next month. During the holiday recess, however, the Administration probably will try to come up with a compromise that will win enough votes to permit a limited U.S. involvement in Angola...
Last week Bhutto, 47, talked at his home in Larkana with TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief William Smith about Pakistan's problems; he had flown there to celebrate the Moslem holiday of 'Id al-Adha before making a four-day state visit to Sri Lanka. Sipping tea on the veranda of the rambling country house, he reminisced about his days at the University of Southern California during the late 1940s. Smith, who was then a student at California Occidental College and vividly recalls Bhutto's championship debating style, reported that "the Prime Minister...
...Quarts. The Atlantic excerpts are vintage Halberstam, rich in anecdotes and exhaustively detailed. There is CBS Star Jack Benny's wife Mary Livingstone bullying a Paris correspondent to produce for her, during a holiday weekend, two quarts of the perfume that Paley's wife favored. Then there is Paley himself, coldly dismissing a close associate of 40 years who had angered him, saying, "We were never friends. You were my lawyer...
...they prepared for the Christmas holiday last week, some Americans suffered second thoughts about traveling by air. Much of their fear of flying was caused by the recent and widely publicized spate of near collisions involving commercial airliners. On Thanksgiving Eve, 24 people were injured when an American Airlines jet dived just in time to avert a collision with a Trans World Airlines plane over Michigan. A fortnight ago, another pair of planes, one a TWA, the other a United Air Lines jet, passed within 300 ft. of each other as both were heading for Chicago...
...film would probably be a worthwhile addition to the CIA's indoctrination program-reminding recruits that espionage is essentially the stuff of childish fantasy, therefore dangerous for grown men to take too seriously. As for the rest of us, the movie is probably the fastest escape from the holiday blahs that Hollywood is offering this season...