Word: picnicing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both natural gas prices and on illegal immigration. The U.S. also signed scientific and technological agreements to help improve housing and crop development in Mexico. In his one excursion into the countryside, Carter visited a model farm (newly stocked and refurbished for the occasion) and joined in a public picnic...
...ordered it destroyed because it desecrated a holy place, and the government reluctantly agreed. The royal family also endorses the ulema's determination to enforce strict Koranic law on Saudi citizens. Two Britons recently were arrested and deported after being found with a lone woman at a seaside picnic. In September, three Saudi men were beheaded after being caught having sexual relations with a woman in a tent. Thus, with the Islamic law so rigidly enforced, it is most unlikely that the religious leaders would ever lead a resistance movement against the House of Saud...
...Former President Richard M. Nixon arrives on campus at the invitation of the Harvard Republican Club, for a speech in Sanders Theater. Saul L. Chafin, commandant of University police, reports that his appropriately-dressed crew made no special preparations for the Nixon visit. Afterward Nixon attends a special picnic lunch in Radcliffe Quad. "We would have had him at the Faculty Club, but we've got a lot of expensive silverware in there." President Horner notes...
...climactic instant of Erhard's appearance, has begun to seem like an eon if only because of the hardtail, fold-down seats of the place: a seedy high school auditorium on Manhattan's Upper East Side temporarily exalted into a mecca for the awareness/consciousness movement. Packing picnic lunches and pillows, the moderately young, mostly white enthusiasts now relishing Erhard, with murmurs of "Beautiful" and "Fabulous," have been here since morning, absorbing with similar murmurs such gurus as Wayne (Your Erroneous Zones) Dyer, Arnold (Pumping Iron) Schwarzenegger, Masters and (The Pleasure Bond) Johnson. This, in short, is the self...
...quite a different plane is Last Wave Director Peter Weir's earlier Picnic at Hanging Rock. Though not scheduled for the New York festival, it is a haunting re-creation of a true incident in 19th century Australian history, in which some schoolgirls disappear from an outback outing, never to be seen again, and with no satisfactory explanation for their disappearance ever discovered. Weir creates an oppressive atmosphere, a compound of heat, isolation and sexual innuendo that is quite singular. His skill at wringing terror out of emptiness and silence, his sense of the fragility and smallness of Europeans cast...