Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some restaurants serve local dishes and good fish. Seaside hotels charge from $45 to $60 a day, double occupancy; each has its own tennis courts, pool and beach. At family hotels and pensions along the 85-mile-long coast, rates are as low as $20 for a double room with bath. There is a lively night life, and car rentals cost only about $9 a day. Gozo, reached by ferry from Malta, is said to be Homer's Ogygia, the isle where Calypso beguiled Odysseus. It is full of small, stone villages and semideserted beaches, and has a hotel...
...their original color; the refurbished houses rent for $105 to $350 a week. One such settlement is a fishing village at Fiscardo, on the unspoiled island of Cephalonia. The village, surrounded by cypress-clad mountains, has many small beaches and an atmosphere reminiscent of its piratical past. A double room in a private house is $9 a night. Restaurants serve traditional Greek dishes (moussaka, roast lamb in lemon), as well as fine lobster and the celebrated Robola wine ($2 a bottle). An increasingly popular island is Santorini in the Aegean, which is said to have been the legendary Atlantis. Donkeys...
...interviewed and what he had learned. But he refused to tell Herbert's lawyers about his conversations with Wallace, or why he decided to believe certain sources but not others, or how he chose what to put on the air and what to leave in the cutting-room. A lower court ordered him to comply, and CBS appealed. Somewhat surprisingly, the network won a sweeping victory in 1977 from a federal court of appeals: an absolute privilege to refuse to answer any questions about editorial thoughts or conversations. "Faced with such an inquiry," wrote Judge Irving Kaufman, "reporters...
...differences were felt most keenly last week at the monthly meeting of the Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee, which determines the pace of money growth and interest rates. The 17 members, seated around a 30-ft. mahogany table in the room where some of the most secret plans of World War II were drawn up, faced an exquisitely difficult choice. They had to decide whether to further tighten credit and raise interest rates, thus taking the risk of tipping the nation into recession, or to maintain rates at their present levels, which might worsen inflation. Their deliberations will...
...instance, was handed down from Eugene Meyer to his brilliant son-in-law Philip Graham. Eventually Graham used Meyer's money to buy out the competition and create a morning monopoly in Washington. According to conventional wisdom, that is the time when publishers kick out the reporters and make room for the advertisers. Graham did nothing of the sort; he used his newfound security to take on better journalists and increase his paper's authority. Graham's suicide in 1963 suddenly pushed his shy wife Katharine into the job of publisher. To nearly everyone's surprise, she rose...