Word: pads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other Climaxes. The Bruins are almost as colorful off the ice as on. Sanderson, with a Playboy-style pad and an unbuttoned lip, plays the role of a freaked-out Joe Namath. "Scoring goals," he likes to say, "isn't the only climax in my life." Esposito festoons his locker with trinkets to ward off "evil spirits." Orr has become a prospective millionaire. He is co-proprietor of a successful hockey camp and is just launching a hockey equipment company with projected first-year sales...
...committee, which includes such prominent Americans as Dr. Edward Teller, inventor of the hydrogen bomb, and Clare Boothe Luce, widow of the publishing magnate, is convinced that Cuba was a launching pad for the student insurrections and black rebellions which plagued the U. S. during...
Such infighting has caused most of the original invasion leaders to leave Alcatraz. They have been replaced by homeless, apolitical young Indians more concerned with finding a pad where they can "get their heads together" than in sustaining any kind of significant political statement. Says Dennis Hastings, a former member of the island's seven-man council: "The important thing about Alcatraz is spiritual rebirth. We're here to let our minds heal. Here we can escape from the limbo culture that we have lived in for too long. We just want to be left alone...
...when the first gunships and Medevac helicopters arrived, the entire base was in flames. "You couldn't see because of the smoke," said Lieut. Mat Noonan, a Medevac pilot. "We had to circle three times just to see where the pad was." Noonan finally set down amidst "the worst carnage I have ever seen at an American installation. There were rows and rows of bodies-some burned to charcoal, others completely disemboweled. There were nine body bags full of bits and pieces of flesh...
During the 95-min. meeting, the President jotted notes on a yellow pad as the Congressmen spoke. They eschewed rhetoric in favor of a carefully prepared brief and a tough look at key issues. Representative Charles Diggs of Michigan, caucus chairman, stated in plain terms that the plight of the nation's blacks is so critical that an upswing in the economy alone will not significantly help them...