Word: offs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly ten years ago, a small band of wary Americans boarded an air-worn converted C-141 tanker. They roared off into the night from Andrews Air Force Base, held their ears from the shattering sound, chewed on half-cooked steaks, and eleven hours later stumbled onto the Helsinki tarmac...
Despite the deportation sentence hanging over them, the Mennonites have moved off the Seven-O Ranch and settled in or near Seminole. They live in small frame houses or trailers scattered about town. Mennonite schools have sprung up. While the women in their traditional loose-fitting dresses do the baking...
Skip the Ritz. Bypass London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Munich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Athens. Head for the byways. Seek out country inns, auberges, Gasthăuser, bedsitters, farms, pensions, pousadas and paradores. This is the year of the offbeat, off-beaten-track European vacation.
ENGLAND. Sir Freddie Laker will get you to London for only $135 from New York City ($199 from Los Angeles), but the bargain stops there. Only stylites, vegetarians and teetotalers are likely to find affordable food and lodging in the capital these days (though first-rate theater tickets cost $10...
National media also played up the event; even if the publicity has no effect on Harvard, it may help educate others about South Africa and touch off similar movements on other campuses, the organizers reason.