Word: provos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Provo, Utah, the Rainy Day Foods company, one of the nation's biggest processors of freeze-dried foods, reports that business is booming as a result of popular fears of future shortages. Since last June, Rainy Day's monthly sales have jumped from $100,000 to $1 million; other processors of storable foods also report large sales increases. Rainy Day President George Murdock thinks he knows the reason: "I hate to say it, but our customers are preparing for the worst." His new customers are largely high-income people: doctors, lawyers, even corporation chiefs. Some are ordering...
Porter was born in Provo, Utah, and reared there and in Ames, Iowa, the son of a professor. He played a little basketball and tennis, did some overseas work for the Mormon Church, graduated from Brigham Young University with straight A's (except for a few A minuses), became a Rhodes scholar, taught at Oxford, came back to Harvard and then became a White House Fellow, one of 15 selected to work and learn for a year at high-level posts in the Government...
...masked man stepped down and trained a gun on the guards as three prisoners bolted forward and scrambled into the cabin of the chopper, which then whirred away. Freed in the daring daytime snatch, which took only a minute, were three top Provisionals: Seamus Twomey, 54, the former Provo chief of staff; Kevin Mallon, 35, a commander of I.R.A. units on the border; and Joe O'Hagan, 50, a top Provo gunrunner...
Prime Minister Cosgrave was said to be "severely shocked by the escapade," particularly since his eight-month-old government had boasted that its tight security and tough crackdowns had kept the Provo gunmen under control. The opposition Fianna Fáil Party immediately blasted the government for its "incompetence in security matters...
...dour, puritanical MacStiofain (who since has been replaced as the Proves' top military man). His Roman Catholic scruples would not even let him bring back from the Protestant North a box of contraceptives his men needed to make acid fuses for their bombs. In her book, the Provo leader emerges as a ruthless, Machiavellian schemer, hooked on violence and callous about casualties. "What does it matter if Protestants get killed? They're all just bigots, aren't they?" she quotes MacStiofain as saying after a car bomb had killed several passersby...