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They were driven through a tunnel under the village to a strip of lawn 275 yards away that had been converted into an emergency helicopter pad. Two choppers took the Arabs and their hostages on a 25-minute ride to Fürstenfeldbruck airport; a third preceded them, carrying German officials and Israeli intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Horror and Death at the Olympics | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...Second Middlesex District campaign has also attracted interest because one of Wylie's lawn signs was burned. The incident attracted a good deal of publicity, with McCann contending that it was blown out of proportion by the liberal press. The race also drew attention when Wylie was arrested after refusing to stop giving out leaflets inside he Harvard Square MTA station. Leafeltting bus stops is a common practice in political campaigns and a spokesman for the MTA could not recall another instance when a candidate has been arrested for doing...

Author: By Douglas E. Schoen, | Title: A Senior Challenges McCann | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...brought Sargent Shriver along, hoping that Shriver's warmer relations with L.B.J. might help ease the chill of the meeting. At Johnson's insistence, neither staff nor reporters were invited. Johnson greeted the candidates in ranch clothes and a flowing, whitish Buffalo Bill mane. Sitting in lawn chairs beneath a towering oak as they sipped iced tea, then going inside the ranch house for a steak lunch, the trio chatted for almost three hours. L.B.J. offered some campaign advice: talk to people on the phone for at least two hours every day; make sure you get a solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Making Up | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

Frank Nowak, 43, a maintenance man for the local RCA plant, is lucky because his house is still standing. He figures it will take a $22,000 loan to rebuild it the way it was. Thumbing through an album showing the house before the flood, with its trim lawn and clipped rose garden, Nowak says: "If I get this place fixed up and somebody comes knocking on my door to say urban renewal is going to tear it down, there's going to be a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Agnes: The Agony of Wilkes-Barre | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

...Cummings aware of the fact that their $3,500 plastic lawn cannot return oxygen to the atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1972 | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

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