Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brewery Worker Erwin Kreuz ends his stay in San Francisco this week and returns to his home in Adelsried, he will complete an exceptional jet-age odyssey. It began when his World Airways flight touched down in Bangor, Me. A disembarking stewardess walked past Kreuz, and wished him a "pleasant stay in San Francisco." Startled, he left the plane and went through customs. But then he kept on going, hailing a cab and, without any knowledge of English, reached a hotel...
...only the first week of all the weeks to come for the next five years; the nine pages outlining the conditions of Woods' banning until October 1982 still sit on his study desk beside his children's report cards. The beginnings, at least, are outwardly pleasant, like an unexpected family vacation. Eventually there will be financial problems. The Daily Dispatch will continue...
Grace Roderick, Pleasant Point's alcoholic counselor (and a former alcoholic) says, "A lot of the problem is the pills. If I take an alcoholic who is drunk to the hospital, the doctor will let him straighten out and when they let him go they won't prescribe 20 or 30 valiums, they'll prescribe 100 valiums. There are people who don't want any help, because they're addicted to these pills. It's a way for them to get these pills by coming to me." Valiums induce a state similar to drunkenness. "Every Indian who walks into that...
...Pleasant Point, Maine, people are also building. New homes are being erected all over the reservation--cheap homes, but adequate and efficient for people who have historically used hand-made shacks with no plumbing or heating. A solar-heated house goes up on the hill overlooking the bay, a sewage treatment plant churns, an electric power station is being planned. A fish processing plant is nearly operational. A recreation league is being organized. A health center is working to provide the Passamaquoddies with good medical care. David Francis has been around long enough to see the improvement. So was another...
Passamaquoddy Governor Francis Nicholas leans back behind the desk in his narrow office in the Pleasant Point Community Center, Someone drops a copy of the Bangor Daily News on his desk. He surveys the front page and a wry smile comes to his wan face. The State of Maine now wants to settle the land case out of court...