Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While his staff often worked 16-hour days, Reagan usually started work at 9 a.m. and left for home promptly at 5:30 p.m. with a briefcase of homework. Recalls William Clark, who was Reagan's top aide: "He would often break into staff meetings at 5 p.m. and suggest that we all go home to our wives and children. Of course, we couldn...
...rival republics, each with its own government and capital. Faced with these opposing claims, the last Portuguese high commissioner, Admiral Leonel Cardoso, refused to turn over authority to anyone. "I regret that it is not possible for me to participate in any ceremony to mark this great hour for the people of Angola," he said...
...Picasso's Guernica adorns one wall, and a small, faded red, yellow and purple flag flutters above a desk cluttered with state documents. Here last week, as they have for the past 30 years, the ministers of the Spanish Republican government in exile gathered for a three-hour Cabinet meeting to discuss the political future of a Spain without Franco...
...York City tribute to the playwright benefited the Committee for Public Justice, a civil liberties organization she founded in 1970. Noting that friends she had not seen in 20 years had called up asking for tickets, the author of The Little Foxes and The Children's Hour greeted the occasion with typical hauteur. "I'm appalled," she laughed. "Appalled that anyone would think I'm handling the tickets...
After the game Harvard's players and fans celebrate in New Haven, and in autos, trains and buses going back to Boston. On the train, one group of former football players sings songs and drinks continuously during the entire three hour ride. The mood on Yale's campus is a bit more somber. Harvard students celebrating in Yale's dining halls are conscious of their laughter. The line at Morey's is not what it might have been, though several dozen people wait outside, huddling against their dates or spouses for warmth, occasionally calling to demonstrative Harvard fans, telling them...