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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critics of the deal counter that since the President recouped about 80% of his original investment by selling 80% of the land, the mansion that he kept on the remaining 20% in effect came free. Also, the current owner of the 23 acres, Nixon Pal Robert Abplanalp, has promised merely to hold the property for as long as his friend is President, thus providing Nixon with the gift of a sanctuary around his home...
Airline executives claim that they will suffer financial damage too. They fear a radical drop in revenue and heavy expenses in maintaining grounded planes. A 747, they note, costs $25 million, and payments must be kept up whether it flies or not. Some lines have asked for delays in accepting new equipment. These delays have contributed to a renewed cash crisis at Lockheed, which last week announced that it might have to seek new short-term loans. Many Wall Street analysts, however, think that the airlines' costs will be outweighed by the efficiencies of dropping unprofitable runs, flying planes...
...bizarre kidnaping case of the 17-year-old grandson of American Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty. Weak and hungry, young Getty told the police he had been released five hours earlier and had wandered around in the rain trying to wave down passing cars. He said his kidnapers had kept him blindfolded and moved him from one hiding place to another in the rugged mountain region of Calabria in southern Italy during five months of captivity...
...than those that are not. Athletes' muscles become fatigued when they are starved for oxygen. To overcome this hunger, Ekblom first removed a total of 1,200 cc. (slightly more than a quart) of blood from each of four students in three separate bleedings four days apart, then kept the blood in cold storage. The bleedings temporarily reduced the subjects' red-cell count, decreasing their oxygen-carrying capacity and thus their endurance by about 30%. But their bodies soon replaced the lost blood. Then, 32 days after the initial bleeding, Ekblom took the red cells, which had been...
...special six-man New England Patriot line-designed to stop O.J. -Simpson pushed his 1973 yardage to 1,803. As he looked toward the final game against the Jets, O.J. was all confidence. "Hey, man," he said, "you know I'm going to do it." Indeed, Simpson kept his word by running his total yardage of the year...