Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...checking in at the world's most exclusive and elaborate political retreat. A 30-min. helicopter ride from Washington, which is 75 miles to the southeast, Camp David is a 143-acre compound of more than a dozen buildings, perched on a 1,880-ft. hilltop in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. The heavily wooded setting, teeming with deer and raccoon, blue jays and snowbirds, and an occasional pileated woodpecker, provides Presidents a spot for total seclusion. Sadat's visit last week marked the 20th time that a foreign chief has joined in that peace and quiet?Churchill's five trips...
...them." Additionally, differences between Democrats and Republicans are blurring somewhat as both parties endorse policies that do not call for massive spending, such as tax reductions for businesses that hire the hard-to-employ. Still, the G.O.P. has a long way to go. Among ordinary blacks, says Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, disappointment with Jimmy Carter is "not enough to even make a dent." Adds James Compton, the head of Chicago's Urban League: "I don't see any philosophic approach in the Republican Party that will attract large numbers of black votes...
...over a huge Baltimore warehouse where modern machines printed, stuffed and mailed letters to computerized addressees-150 million letters in one 18-month period. And how the money rolled in: an estimated $56 million between 1970 and mid-1975, making the Pallottines second only to the United Fund among Maryland charities...
...roll out. While the United Fund was sending 92% of its total receipts to member charitable agencies, the Pallottines were sending as little as 2.5% of their enormous income on to the missions. No one yet knows exactly where all the extra millions got to. But last week a Maryland grand jury charged Father Carcich with 60 criminal counts of misappropriation of funds and one count of obstruction of justice. An alleged coconspirator, the order's lay investment adviser, Donald Webster, will not go to trial: he shot himself to death in a flossy condominium in Ocean City...
...banning Sunday business go back to pre-Revolutionary times, gave in and allowed shopkeepers to stay open on the four Sundays before Christmas. Officials made little effort to enforce Sunday closings even where the law requires them. In Baltimore, some retailers stayed open the Sunday before Christmas, defying the Maryland legislature, which had considered and rejected Sunday openings. One store was fined $100 and the others got away with mere warnings...