Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machines were jammed into ranger headquarters at Panther Junction to handle press copy, and a car stood ready to rush outgoing material to the airstrip 120 miles away. For Lady Bird's five-hour raft journey through the wild gorges of the Rio Grande, rangers had floated box lunches, soft drinks and coffee, and portable toilets to the sand bar where the party was to stop for lunch. The river, which frequently falls so low that rafts cannot negotiate it, was also up to the occasion-a full...
...lagoons in Hué (pronounced whey). Today their palaces are crumbling, and Hué is a subdued and ceremonial city of 105,000 without a newspaper, scarcely a telephone, and little traffic beyond bicycles and canvas-topped cyclo taxis. The only industry is a lime plant employing 50 people. Lunch is a leisurely three-hour affair. A woman dropping her cooking pans can shatter the tree-shaded silence at midday for blocks around. The facade is deceiving. The site of Viet Nam's first university in 1918, Hué is the intellectual-and Buddhist-capital of the nation...
...avoid any false step or suffer everlasting punishment in hell. It did little to establish the credibility of this "God" that medieval theologians categorized his qualities as confidently as they spelled out different kinds of sin, and that churchmen spoke about him as if they had just finished having lunch with...
...After lunch and talks in Paris with Charles de Gaulle, Mrs. Gandhi boarded a more suitable transport for her transatlantic flight: a White House...
...skyscrapers go up at the drop of a mortgage and are torn down almost as fast. Cars, houses, jobs and spouses are changed with an ease and rapidity that shocks the rest of the world. There is the ten-city tour of Europe in two weeks, the stand-up lunch, the precooked frozen dinner, the disposable dress, the phone call instead of a letter, the formal invitation sent by telegram. There is even, for some, instant bliss through LSD. The U.S. is running an economic fever trying to end poverty and pollution, put a man on the moon...