Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the trip was almost wholly ceremonial. After the obligatory stop in Paris at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Carter did an abbreviated replay of last January's Pennsylvania Avenue walkathon. He strolled several blocks down the Champs-Elysees with President Giscard, even worrying his Secret Service protectors by striding into curbside crowds. The next day he helicoptered to Normandy and walked along Omaha Beach-site of some of D-day's heaviest fighting-and laid a wreath at the American military cemetery where 9,386 casualties of that epic assault are buried...
...chain saws snarled and the great logs were carted off to Virginia for disposal, passers-by on Pennsylvania Avenue paused to watch and wonder. Trees have been an integral part of American commerce, folklore and culture. Especially elm trees. William Penn signed his treaty with the Indians in 1682 under an elm that was already 295 years old. The Boston Liberty Tree of 1770 was an elm. George Washington took command of the Continental troops under the Cambridge elm on July 3, 1775. Settlers hauled elms west and south and north, lining their streets and filling their parks with them...
...gambling gets under way soon. Lenders may withhold additional loans until the first casino -probably Resorts International's entry -has been in operation for at least six months. "And by that time," complains one investor, "Miami may have casinos." Not to mention New York's Catskills and Pennsylvania's Poconos...
...HARVARD 7-5-0 6. Dartmouth 5-4-0 7. Northeastern 5-4-1 8. Yale 6-5-1 9. Vermont 4-4-0 R.P.I. 3-3-0 11. New Hampshire 4-6-0 St. Lawrence 4-6-0 13. Providence 3-6-1 14. Pennsylvania 1-4-1 Cornell 1-4-1 16. Princeton 1-6-1 17. Colgate...
...mixed first year in office for Jimmy Carter, but it was a darned good one for other members of his family. His brother, sisters and cousin reaped a tidy income harvest that in some cases would never have come their way if Jimmy were not living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...