Word: logs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Times" ad that ran in last Sunday's Week in Review section. Over a picture of a middle-aged suburban woman, the copy reads, "I drive a school bus. I've seen "Star Wars" three times. And found out in the Times how to build a log cabin...
...Koch is typical of many New Yorkers reared in the urban equivalent of the log cabin. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who lived in The Bronx when the two boys and their kid sister Pat were small. After the father's modest fur business failed during the Depression, the family operated a cloakroom concession in a Newark catering hall...
...sworn testimony from his personal aides and doctors, Howard Hughes became addicted to the tranquilizer Valium. As a total recluse living in a series of penthouse hideaways, he popped large-dosage 10-mg. blue tablets, which his personal aides faithfully recorded as BBs (for blue bombers) in the daily log that they kept on his activities. On many occasions, Hughes gulped as much as 40 mg. at one time, a dosage that exceeds even the recommended daily medication for agitated mental patients. After the pill popping, he would doze for hours. In a deposition given in June, Dr. Homer Clark...
...executives of Summa Corp.-which was solely owned by Hughes and still oversees his vast real estate, gambling and hotel interests and airline-pretended that the old man was alert and bossing the company from behind the scenes. Actually, he was leading a totally disoriented life. Hughes' daily log, which is expected to be introduced as evidence in pending court actions, recounts that he spent most of his waking hours watching thriller movies, going to the bathroom (for years he suffered from constipation) and toying with his food (he would often spend two hours nibbling on a single piece...
Several denominations are trying to teach people how to keep watch on TV. The Southern Baptists' Christian Life Commission has mailed "Help for Television Viewers" kits to 35,000 pastors and 15,000 lay leaders. The $1.50 kit includes a checklist so viewers can log incidents of violence, profanity and alcohol and sexual abuse. A more sophisticated project is "Television Awareness Training," a 16-hour course sponsored by the United Methodist Church, American Lutheran Church and Church of the Brethren. T.A.T. has trained more than 100 instructors so far, and they will begin offering classes for church and civic...