Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...step allowed them to immediately abandon their commands and seek refuge in the U.S. or elsewhere in Latin America. As Somoza's officers planned their getaways, Nicaraguan Congressmen who had been confined in Managua's Intercontinental Hotel grew increasingly panicky. Finally, they were called into a post-midnight session. They unanimously accepted Somoza's resignation and conferred the blue-and-white sash, symbolic of the presidency, on his longtime flunky, former Health Minister Francisco Urcuyo Maliaño. As soon as the session adjourned, most of the lawmakers lit out for the airport or to the foreign...
Right in its path was Rancher John Seller, who was asleep in his house at Noondoonia Station, a 50-sq.-mi. sheep spread 480 miles east of Perth, Western Australia's capital city. Just 35 minutes after midnight, he and his wife, Elizabeth, were shaken awake by a loud noise. They ran outside. Said Seiler: "It was an incredible sight-hundreds of shining lights dropping all around the homestead. They were white, but as they began dropping, the pieces turned dull red. All the time there was a tremendous sonic boom...
...detective whose sublime faith in computers is never rewarded by solid leads. We also get a hired killer who indulges in kinky sex simply because such escapades are an obligatory part of Hollywood packages like this. One expects fantasies in the newish jet-set genre (The Other Side of Midnight, The Greek Tycoon) to be unfelt, but it is always a little surprising to find them so poorly observed. Almost any of the gos sip columns that provide the raw material for these films are more amusing, and more professionally managed. One suspects that there is a better story...
...their patients' bedtimes ahead, three hours a day. (Three patients, including King, tried the test at home, pledging to retire on schedule.) The chronotherapy lasted a week, until the night folks had been worked around the clock to a reasonable bedtime. In King's case, that meant midnight...
Africa's newest black-led nation, Zimbabwe Rhodesia, officially came into being last week, and 88 years of white rule ended. At midnight on May 31, power passed quietly and without fanfare from outgoing Prime Minister Ian Smith, who had guided Rhodesia's white minority regime for more than 15 years, to Bishop Abel Muzorewa, who will lead a black majority government in which whites have retained substantial powers...