Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glorious, gala night for Rhodesia's whites. Champagne flowed, ladies wore elegant gowns, their men were in tuxedos and regimental kilts. At midnight, after guests saluted him with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, Prime Minister Ian Smith rang Rhodesia's silver Independence Bell an even dozen times, greeting the start of the twelfth year since his regime unilaterally broke away from Britain. The festivities may mark the last time that whites in Rhodesia can celebrate that particular act of independence. But the mood at the ball was stubbornly defiant. In the spirit of the occasion...
Craig Hillier, 46, a Cleveland interior decorator, weighed 341 lbs. and seemed to be adding girth daily. He stopped for hamburgers on his way home, kept a box of candy under his bed for midnight snacks-and watched his blood pressure soar. "I was ready for the basket," says Hillier, who had tried every imaginable weight reduction gimmick, including amphetamines, without success. That was only five months ago. Now the 6 ft. 4 in. Hillier is down to a trim 200 lbs., feels so good he wants to start skiing and, patting his new flat stomach, boasts: "I have...
...boxes such as a tone sounder that lets motorists know that their signal has been received. In Illinois, the department of transportation has attached a sign on each box telling the motorist how long he can expect to wait for help. As one official explains: "At midnight, five minutes can seem like an hour...
...COMING HOME to South House from the Square around midnight. On my way through the Common I noticed a group of people talking and smoking by the path, so I hugged the shadows and slipped by quietly. They say the Common is a dangerous place at night...
...fizz starts to whiz. Since the plane travels at 1,350 m.p.h., about 600 m.p.h. faster than the world turns below the flight, midnight will come again over the Atlantic with the passengers, as the New York packaging agent puts it delicately, "eleven miles high." Fortified with three more courses of dinner, the revelers will land in Washington (e.t.a.: 9:50 p.m.) and toddle over to the French embassy for the last three courses and a final salute to 1977. "It will be a first in the history of the world," say the promoters, "ranking with Lindbergh or Earhart...