Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a hard day of campaigning in Wisconsin, Jimmy Carter traveled to upstate New York and settled into bed before midnight at the Tudor-style house of Lawyer Gerald Fincke and Wife Pat in Rochester. Carter tries to stay in private homes when campaigning, to save hotel bills and cultivate his grass-roots support. As usual, he opened his New Testament, which he is now reading in Spanish in order to brush up on the language. This night he read Chapter 8 of II Corinthians: "We aim at what is honorable not only in the Lord's sight...
...Israeli forces on the Golan Heights were retreating in the face of a massive Syrian tank assault. At 10 p.m. on Oct. 8, the Israeli Commander on the northern front. Major General Yitzhak Hoffi, told his superior: "I am not sure that we can hold out much longer." After midnight. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan solemnly warned Premier Golda Meir: "This is the end of the third temple."* Mrs. Meir thereupon gave Dayan permission to activate Israel's Doomsday weapons. As each bomb was assembled, it was rushed off to waiting air force units. Before any triggers were set, however...
...Midnight Visits. The investigation by Japanese police, tax and customs agents has already yielded enough evidence to indict Kodama for falsifying his 1972 income tax returns. But Kodama, 65, has been confined to his home for much of the time since a stroke in late 1975, and whether he will ever face trial is doubtful. His doctor says that Kodama has been talking of receiving midnight visits from the ghost of an old friend, Vice Admiral Takijiro Onishi. The admiral, by chilling coincidence, planned the first kamikaze missions in the waning days of World War II. The day before...
...Midnight Blue is aired in the New York City area on a public-access channel of Manhattan Cable TV, a subsidiary of Time Inc. As a condition of their franchises, cable-TV companies must turn over time on their channels for public access: free or nominal-charge use by individuals and community groups. Manhattan Cable is unhappy about Midnight Blue, but federal, state and city regulations require cable-TV franchise holders to make these public channels available on a first-come, first-served, nondiscriminatory basis. The limits on what is shown are, in what is still a new field...
...movie reviews and endless columns of ads for prostitutes and willing amateurs. The formula, imitated by several other sheets, tapped an astonishing market of the sexually hungry, lonely and perverse, who, Goldstein says, have a right to their pleasures, just like the rest of humanity. His latest effort is Midnight Blue, a thrice-weekly, hour-long soft-core cable-TV program that now takes ads for massage parlors ($350 per one-minute commercial...