Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially in the face of adversity, and lauded the assembled guests for their loyalty at a time when he needed it most. "He had people in tears" by the end of his remarks, according to Hope. Before midnight, what Annenberg called "a quiet, private dinner" for "old friends of mine and the former President" had broken up. The next day, the Nixons departed to resume their seclusion in San Clemente...
...fields around Karatu, his home town, located about 130 miles from the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. For added sport, he dodged the leopards that hunted in the same area ("I had to throw stones at one once," says Bayi coolly. "He went his way, and I went mine"). In those days, he had "no program. I was just running...
About a month ago, a friend of mine gave me a book on Jean Dubuffet. I haven't looked at it much, except to notice that he left the price tag on it, and that the stuff shown inside looks very bizarre. At any rate, the Rolly Michaux gallery is showing gouaches, lithographs and aquatints by Dubuflet Calder and Miro (who I'd at least heard of before) through March 21. Calder is mostly known for his mobiles, copies of which have a tendancy to end up in banks. The gallery is at 125 Newbury St. in Boston...
...Guinea has slapped a tax on bauxite, which will add $40 million a year tot>, the costs of the consortiums of U.S., Canadian, West German, French and Italian aluminum companies that mine the West African country's immense deposits. The tax follows the precedent set by Jamaica last spring, when it increased taxes and royalties on its bauxite by 800%. Guinea plans to use the $40 million to help offset the higher oil-import costs that are squeezing the budgets of, all the less developed countries...
Gradually I brake and ease the car into a clearing off the road. The Mercury's engine gurgles and fails, it is quiet again. His face is finally calm, but I squeeze mine a little so it still looks offended. A yard away, a pile of fallen leaves breaks and an animal with a naked, ringed tail rustles out. Startled, my brother watches the possum's ambling intently. The car door swings wide and he slinks around to my side. I can't help smiling at his shrewd expression as he motions for me to step...