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Word: parkway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first victim, Yolanda Washington, 20, called her high-living boyfriend a "bad dude" before her body was discovered near Forest Lawn cemetery in suburban Glendale, but police do not regard him as a suspect. Victim No. 5, Kathleen Robinson, 17, a frequent hitchhiker, was found beside a parkway in Los Angeles. The two youngest, Dollie Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, vanished a week before their bodies were found on a trash heap in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium. Neighbors of the latest victim, Lauren Rae Wagner, 18, a student at a local business college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: L.A. Strangler | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...opening half, when Harvard's offensive line treated the Dartmouths with Rodney Dangerfield-like respect. In other words, with none. The holes that opened were immense, and at least on this day, Brown, Sigillito, Ralph Polillio, and Chris Doherty looked like the Four Horsemen of Fresh Pond Parkway...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Dartmouth Big Green Ain't So Mean | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...Department of Transportation granted awards totaling over $110 million dollars for MBTA improvements. The largest award, $42 million, will finance a new Harvard Square station, and new rail and stations to serve Porter Square, Davis Square, and the Alewife-Brook Parkway...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Federal Funds Granted; Subway Extension Slated | 10/8/1977 | See Source »

...Swope Parkway two women on the way to pick up their husbands at the Armco Steel plant took refuge on top of their car. But it overturned after being battered by abandoned floating cars and the torrents of water; one woman was rescued by six men who formed a human chain to pull her to safety, but her sister-in-law drowned. The 23 other dead were found, said one reporter, "all over the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rain of Fear In Kansas City | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

...high officials in Washington talked directly about the Central Intelligence Agency. It was obliquely referred to as "the pickle factory" or "our friends" or "across the river" or, more openly, "the agency" or "the company." When the CIA's $46 million headquarters opened along George Washington Memorial Parkway in suburban Langley, Va., in 1961, the deceptive highway sign said only BPR, for Bureau of Public Roads. Even Soviet KGB agents laughed at that. Finally the sign was changed to read: CIA. Now candor has gone further. For the first time, a photographer-from TIME-has been allowed to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: An Old Salt Opens Up the Pickle Factory | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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