Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Instead my sisters and I now pile into the car every Christmas Eve to roam the various housing subdivisions near where I live, searching for this year's winner of the "Most Garishly Decorated House Award." Aluminum foil doors, wrapped to resemble Christmas gifts, and always a hot item with the locals...
...next item in my mind is the selection of a new chief" who will decide what to do with the report's recommendations, he said. The decision will probably not come before the beginning of next semester...
...same gauntlet last week, gathered in the hot, squalid main hall of Mogadishu airport to await an Aeroflot flight to Aden. Somali customs officials, who normally give departing passengers a bored wave-through, set upon the sweating travelers with malicious grins, demanding that they open every suitcase for an item-by-item inspection. At the airport bar, quarrels broke out as the bartender doubled the price of Cokes. A Western TV cameraman recording the pandemonium took an elbow in the ribs from an incensed Russian...
Security measures at West German airports included frequent patrols by police carrying submachine guns and the planeside identification by passengers of heavy luggage before it was put aboard. West German police meticulously inspected each item, Israeli-style, in every passenger's luggage. Major airports located near international waters, including New York's Kennedy and Boston's Logan, were asked to patrol for any suspicious-looking craft capable of firing rockets. In addition, Lufthansa jetcraft followed new flight patterns. In West Germany the planes were often given runway changes at the last minute...
...Second Whole Kids Catalog (Bantam; $7.50), by Peter Cardozo, belongs on any whole kid's bookshelf. No matter what his or her interest-or obsession-this fat paperback has an entry to satisfy it. Like the first Whole Kids Catalog (1975), its encore lists scores of free items that children can send away for-posters, coloring books, even games. Is the child a budding conjuror? Self-Working Card Tricks are only a postage stamp (plus $1.50) away, as well as membership in the Young Magicians Club. Kids into cartoons and photography can study film animation, make paper movie machines...