Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airplane from a thunderstorm, 3) tamed the waters from a collapsing dam, 4) plucked a speedboat full of criminals from the East River and set it down, still dripping, on Wall Street, 5) caught a crashing helicopter in midair, 6) flown round the world in 90 seconds with Lois Lane in his arms, and 7) cooked a soufflé for Lois with his X-ray eyes...
...anyone who has grown up male in the United States, driving an automobile transcends the rather rudimentary coordination one needs to stay in lane on highways. For reasons that swell Freudian literature, driving becomes a symbolic, even a sexual act. (Praised be the soft enchantress who likes the way we shift...
...being shot at the same time as those for Superman I. The young producers followed the same cost-cutting measure when they shot the Three and Four Musketeers-though they neglected to tell the actors that time. This time the principals know. Reeve and Margot Kidder, who gives Lois Lane the sex appeal that schoolboys always knew she had, are already looking forward to Superman II, III and IV. Reeve was afraid of being typecast, but Sean Connery, who played James Bond six times, put his fears to rest. Said Connery: "You had better be good in the first Superman...
...delegates were quartered in luxurious villas and a new ten-story hotel, and their gourmet meals were prepared by an imported battalion of chefs (one from Maxim's in Paris). The estimated price tag for the extravaganza (including the construction of a six-lane highway, a new presidential palace and the conference-theater complex) was $800 million. That is nearly 75% of Gabon's budget for 1977, in a country whose per capita gross domestic product is $2,800 -the highest in black Africa...
Meany may not take the advice; even if he does retire in December, his successor as AFL-CIO president would surely be Lane Kirkland, 55, the federation's secretary-treasurer and also a strong conservative. But either Meany or Kirkland may find the executive council something other than the rubber stamp that it has become; Winpisinger is expected to be a catalyst for change. At least four members are likely to vote with him to reform AFL-CIO policies: Murray Finley, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Sol Chaikin, president of the Ladies Garment Workers; Glenn Watts, chief...