Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secret Service receives a bomb report, and four agents with a German Shepherd rush to the far corner of the Common in a Harley-Davidson golf cart. The dog decides that the bomb is buried underneath the stop light at the corner of Beacon Street and whines until his masters, relieved at the false alarm, lift him back aboard the cart...
...enterprise, Moral Majority Inc., and plans to hit all 50 states within 18 months. He sees Moral Majority as a much needed antidote to progressive public interest organizations like Common Cause. Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett traveled with Falwell during the first week of his campaign. Barrett's report...
...Nature report created a wave of excitement among scientists, and several teams focused their attention on the twin quasars. Among them were David Roberts, Perry Greenfield and Bernard Burke, all from M.I.T., who analyzed signals from the quasars received at the Very Large Array (VLA) antennas of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory near Socorro, N.M. What resulted was a radio map that, with one important exception, coincided with the images seen with the Kitt Peak telescope. The difference was that the sensitive radio antenna array discerned two jets of material that seemed to be shooting from one of the quasars...
...most visible demand for gold is coming from the U.S. Newspaper ads urge readers to bring their gold heirlooms in to dealers; panning for gold along rivers is again a popular hobby, and old gold mines are being reopened. In Atlanta, dentists report that patients are asking for the return of their gold inlays after they have been replaced with crowns. Large crowds and ever ringing phones are making the normally sedate quarters of bullion dealers look like bookie joints...
...single code word cabled from Kissinger to Nixon, "Eureka, " advised that the trip had been successful. After returning from Peking, Kissinger and Aide Winston Lord drafted a report to Nixon that exulted: "We have laid the groundwork for you and Mao to turn a page in history." On July 15 Nixon informed stunned television viewers of Kissinger's secret trip and his own plan to visit China some time before May 1972. In October 1971. Kissinger returned to China, with a team of "advance men, "to prepare for Nixon's own visit...