Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a miniaturized calculator that enables the wearer to add, subtract, divide and multiply. It can calculate figures up to 999 billion, and has a memory bank. Pulsar will manufacture only a limited number of the solid-gold, 22-key calculator watches at $3,950 each. Next year the Pennsylvania-based company will market a stainless steel model priced at "under...
Driving to Rochester. Flying down Interstate 90, which goes through upstate New York, a snip of Pennsylvania near Erie, Cleveland and Ohio, Indiana to Gary, where it runs next to the U.S. Steel Works, on past Chicago, veering north-west to the enclave of Madison, Wisconsin, crossing the Mississippi near Dubuque into the boring farmland of southern Minnesota, where Hubert Humphrey was born among grain elevators seen from miles away and welcoming like a pleasure ship to life-raft drifters (not like lush Iowa to the south) into South Dakota, the Badlands and Wall Drug and the Black Hills...
...vast fortress-like building on Pennsylvania Avenue has been criticized as an architectural disaster and a shocking waste of public funds ($126 million). Now the name, cast in bronze, begins to be something of an embarrassment in a democratic capital: the J. Edgar Hoover Building...
JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS were separated for long periods during the 22-year period the book spans. During their courtship and the early years of their marriage, Adams was often away practicing law in different towns. Then, the First and Second Continental Congresses drew the Braintree lawyer to Pennsylvania until 1777 when an appointment to diplomatic duties in France and Holland splintered his family for years. Out of these years apart come the letters...
...that chamber. As early as 1969, he sent a prophetic message on behalf of Republican moderates to President Nixon, who had been ignoring them. Mathias warned, "You don't need us now, but you will later." Mathias was an early critic of the Viet Nam War. With Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, he was one of only two Republican Senators on Nixon's celebrated enemies list - a point in which he now takes pride...