Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Reggie McNamara, 83, who broke many of his bones as well as several world records to become the grand old iron man of bicycle racing; in Belleville, N.J. One of 14 children born to an Irish immigrant couple in the Australian Outback, young Reggie hunted kangaroos and sold their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later...
...sixteen hours a day in your cell with nobody to speak to or anything to read. No matter how strong I might remain, the screams, the crying-fits, and the muffled shrieks of people shouting "Hold out a little longer (Aushalten)!" as they beat their fists against the iron doors and hurled chairs against the iron doors and hurled chairs against the walls before being led off to the rubber room--all of this made me wonder how Elizabeth was surviving...
...also drop a post card in the mail that says the same ("Please Free Elizabeth") to: Free Elizabeth, P.O. Box 32, Cambridge 02139. The cards will be delivered to Elizabeth in her East German work camp and the calls will be played on West German television over the Iron Curtain to let Elizabeth know that she hasn't been forgotten
...Forrester believes that the iron rule of a social system is that you can't improve a given aspect of it without making other aspects worse. Programs which try to make life in the cities more attractive wind up defeating themselves because they draw immigrants in until the city's overall attractiveness level is driven down to that of surrounding areas...
Although Boun Oum's power has not been based on a commercial empire, it has facilitated his accumulation of substantial commercial interests, apart from his airline and the profits from buildings rented to Americans in Vientiane. These include cement and pig iron factories in Thakkek, a tin mine which accounts for perhaps one fourth of the Country's total production, saw mills in Sedone and Savannakhet, and substantial forests and agricultural land...