Word: pocono
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus ended a dramatic stake-out at the Mount Pocono airfield that involved U.S. customs and border-patrol agents. Federal Drug Enforcement officials and Pennsylvania state police. The cops' sporadic watch had begun last month, following a tip that a mysterious chartered plane might land somewhere in Pennsylvania with illegal goods...
Deprived of such shelter, Patty and the Harrises next occupied an isolated farmhouse in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, near the hamlet of South Canaan. They did so, the FBI believes, with the aid of Jack Scott, former athletics director at Ohio's Oberlin College, who with his wife Micki has refused to answer FBI questions or appear before a federal grand jury investigating the movements of Patty and the Harrises...
...after all, not so much different from dropping logs at his Pocono Mountains training camp--work on them in the right place, use their own weight against them, step away at the "timber" point and enjoy the scene...
...Pocono Downs, the Wilkes-Barre horse track, lies above the town on one of the ridges. It was there, as millions witnessed on network television, that many of the 100,000 evacuees from the city were first brought. In the midst of betting windows and grandstand seats, displaced residents were given temporary shelter and emergency first aid before being scattered out to Civil Defense refuges and hospitals around Luzerne County. Once emergency operations were switched to the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Airport the track reverted to its former function and within a week after the disaster ponies were again trotting where...