Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Lady will leave from Brunswick, Ga., aboard an Air Force Boeing 707 appropriately dubbed "Executive First Family," which translates into the radio call sign "Executive One Foxtrot." Her first stop: Kingston, Jamaica, where U.S. diplomats hope she can somehow allay Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley's suspicions of a CIA plot to "destabilize" his regime...
...been so long since a film like Star Wars came along--an uplifting slice of escapist fare that isn't a disaster movie--that Lucas merits a nod of the cap for a refreshing change of pace, so long as Star Wars remains just that, and not a sign of things to come in the future from the camera of George Lucas...
After 20 hours of tortured debate, the house voted 162 to 52 to shrink itself by one-third. The senate is expected to give final approval to the bill this week, and Governor Michael Dukakis to sign it into law soon thereafter...
...University of New York at Buffalo in 1970, Novelist John Earth, a teacher there, remarked: "I'm totally bored by the situation, the critical importance of which I absolutely affirm." If they are to succeed with the Russians, U.S. negotiators must always cultivate a certain fatalism. The Soviets sign agreements when they believe it is valuable for them to do so; otherwise, they do not sign...
...widespread agreement that U.S. jobless youths do not feel permanently shut out of the economic system, as do many of their counterparts in Europe, nor do most of them feel alienated from the work ethic. Thousands of New York City youths stood in line overnight last month to sign up for federally funded summer jobs. As M.I.T. Economist Michael Piore puts it, "In Europe, the young get mad about unemployment. Here, they just get scared...