Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acceptance speech, the President surprised and delighted the crowd of 8,000 by beginning with a phrase in the local dialect: "Ha'way the lads," a popular cheer for the local soccer team. Said Callaghan afterward: "I don't know where you picked that up from, but I tell you that you couldn't find a way more quickly to the hearts of our people." Accepting his new privileges, Carter mentioned the name by which people of the region are known. "I'm glad to be a Geordie," he said -and the crowd roared...
...politician Peter Lorenz, who was abducted in 1975 while running for mayor in Berlin. Flown to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen by the Bonn government, Becker reportedly took courses in hijacking and other terrorist skills at a training camp run by the Marxist, militantly anti-Israel Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine...
...appointed by President Suharto.* At week's end, the ballots were still being counted, but Suharto's military-backed Golkar, a "functional group" of professionals and bureaucrats, had apparently won about 62% of the vote and at least 236 seats in the new house. Golkar's popular vote almost equaled its total in the 1971 elections - the only prior test of the government's popularity since Suharto ousted the late, pro-Communist Sukarno in the bloody aftermath of an abortive leftist coup...
...nearly a century after his death, Trollope is more popular than ever. The Pallisers, the 22-part PBS television series based on his political novels, has received almost universal praise from the critics, and has won a devoted, sometimes even fanatical, audience. In Manhattan, liquor store dealers have been startled by a sudden demand for a liqueur called orange Curaçao. The reason can now be told: it was the favorite drink of Trollope's crusty old Duke of Omnium. Oxford University Press, which publishes the six Palliser volumes, quickly cleaned out its stock after the TV program...
...Williams. Why, we may all rightfully ask, is the May Day Festival, featuring Arlo Guthrie, Jerry Jeff Walker, Taj Mahal, Tom Rush, Albert B. Lord, Vassar Clements, Commander Cody, The James Cotton Band, Clean Living, and Zonkaraz being held on May 14? Where? Read the Phoenix, or the ever-popular Harry's Column, or the Onerous Manual for your moped. Todd Rundgren has been rescheduled for May 17 at 8 p.m. at the Orpheum. For all of you with "second show added" fetishes, there's Little Feat, with on-the-skids special guest Commander Cody...