Word: locationer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Space officials cannot tell precisely when the "random reentry" (as NASA jargon has it) will occur. Best estimate: some time between mid-1979 and mid-1980. They do know that most of the space station will burn up in the atmosphere. But about one-third of the station will rain...
Sunday, in the latest installment of bickering over debate schedules and locations, Bush proposed an alternative series of presidential debates, refusing to consider more than one of the traditional meetings sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates in favor of, as he puts it, "formats that are more free-flowing...
Scene 1: Hollywood actress takes the Concorde to Paris, where she will make a movie called, of all things, Airport 79, the Concorde. On the flight, she chats with a handsome Republican Senator from Illinois going to Europe to evaluate the reaction to President Carter's energy policy. Scene...
Begin's speech was delivered under the most extraordinary security precautions Norway had seen in recent memory. An estimated 2,000 policemen were deployed around Oslo; Begin was ferried to the Akershus by helicopter and bulletproof limousine. Even the location of the ceremony was a concession to police precautions...
Narrated by Ellellou, deposed and comfortably exiled in the South of France, the story has that sad, ironical tone of dis location found in the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. "All their languages were second languages . . . clumsy masks their thoughts must put on," are among Updike's Nabokovian touches.