Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Firm Tug. Limping because of her broken foot, Polly Mills grabbed her husband's hand and firmly tugged him through the mob of newsmen at the Little Rock airport. One man held up a sign that read SUPPORT THE KENNEDY-MILLS WATER SAFETY BILL, but that gibe did not appear to reflect the majority opinion on Mills' escapade. The next evening an enthusiastic gathering of Jaycees laughed and shouted "Good for you, Wilbur" as Mills attempted to explain what had happened. "I was one of those who went out one night and did something I shouldn...
...Hillels' color documentary, Of Pure Blood, shown recently on British television and shortly to be released all over Europe, is built around interviews with survivors and former officials of Lebensborn. In the film's most poignant se quence, an aged Polish woman pleads for some sign of affection from her daughter, taken as a girl from her by Himmler's men and now, 32 years later, a hausfrau in Flensburg, West Germany. Next on the screen is a lawyer coolly explaining that the daughter considers herself German and has no desire to remember the past...
...Towers. Pharmacist Petricone recalled that youths broke windows at almost every store lining Cambridge Street set cars on fire and spray-painted obscenities on every naked wall. The words "Pigs Suck"--in bright red paint--still adorn a wall on a Towers building fronting Cambridge Street. Residents said the sign is a holdover from the 1972 riots...
...this isn't necessarily bad. We've come to expect a reasonable share of obscurity and allusiveness from the Modern Novel, and if Nabokov prefers to allude only to his own work, okay. The first sign that all is not well between Nabokov and the reader is the compulsive desire to anagram every unfamiliar name (or else run to a Russian dictionary) so as not to miss some crucial symbolic connection. Next comes the realization that there isn't really all that much there to miss...
...goal is possible, Detroit believes, only if the 1975 emission standards are not made any tougher (they are scheduled to become progressively more stringent in 1977 and 1978)-and if no new weight-adding safety standards (like stronger bumpers and side panels) are imposed. But Congress has shown no sign to date of being ready to ease the standards...