Word: overnighters
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They found the highway restaurants "faultlessly clean" and staffed by "smiling waitresses," and the motels inspired them to say, "We can and must learn a lot from the example of the American 'overnight industry.''" They found that Cokes "really did make things go better," so they drank 300 of them. As for catsup, they claimed that it turns "every meal tastier." They added: "What happened to catsup in the Soviet Union...
...late afternoon the government nervously imposed a curfew on all of Beirut. Children at the British School, used by the foreign community, were kept overnight. Authorities decided that they were safer sleeping in the basement than venturing into the streets to go home. Before the airport was closed, incoming tourists were conveyed into the city by armored police vehicles. Some motorists who ignored the curfew were hauled from their cars by troops and butted in the back with rifles...
...efforts brought Viet Nam from a time of mere leaping from one crisis to another to a point where long-range planning is possible. He is undiscouraged by the uneasy peace that now prevails: "I think that after a generation of war, one cannot expect peace to descend overnight. It will require time and patience." Thieu, he feels, faces four major tasks: refugee resettlement, war-damage reconstruction, economic development and ensuring greater effectiveness for his government...
...physical education. Even the doctors consulted by his parents provided little in the way of relief. According to Erick's mother, Mrs. Dorothy Carstensen of Los Angeles: "They'd all say the same thing: 'Don't worry about it. He'll shoot up overnight...
...McHenry, Ill., a gentleman farmer reported that at least four had been stolen. A Monticello, Ill., landowner found that 20 had been taken from her property overnight. In Columbus, Ohio, citizens discovered that five were missing from a city park. The objects that are becoming increasingly attractive to Midwestern thieves are not the underworld's usual stock in trade. They are black walnut trees, which are disappearing at an alarming rate from the north-central forests of the U.S., where most of them grow. In many places where the best of the giant shade trees once stood, beautifying landscapes...