Word: sitdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approaching midafternoon, and a sparkling, early-summer Spanish sun still shone high over the tiny Mediterranean resort of San Carlos de la Rapita. Most of the 600 French, West German and Belgian tourists at Los Alfaques (the Sandbars) campsite were eating a leisurely sitdown lunch in front of their tents and trailers or at picnic tables under the shade of palm and cypress trees. Others were dozing off for a vacation siesta. Groups of children romped among the sunbathers basking on the narrow beach...
Some souls must endure fate's buffets, and others are favored guests at destiny's sitdown dinners. Except for her fat period and a bit of mid-marriage bumpiness, Cheryl Tiegs' life seems to have been uncommonly secure and successful from the beginning. The warmth and strength she now shows so easily to the camera is clearly to some degree a reflection of what she knew as a child in Alhambra, Calif. Theodore Tiegs, an undertaker, was a steady, thoughtful, attention-paying father, says Cheryl, and her mother, Phyllis, was a laughing, cuddling person. Phyllis worked in a flower shop...
...routine in seat-belt situ. Almost since takeoff from Cologne on Lufthansa's flight 408 to New York, she has been rotating her midsection, rolling her eyes shimmying her shoulders and flexing her thighs. And she is not the only one-just about everyone aboard is doing this "sitdown rumba." Is this a traveling company of A Chorus Line? In-flight ecdysiast transcendentalists...
...buses (25?). Longest walk: 1,320 ft. Baggage checkout: good. Hotels/Motels: good. Hyatt House adjoins airport, at least eleven hotels or motels within 5 min. Amenities: dismal, though waiting lounges are spacious and airy. One coffee shop in each terminal. Cafeterias offer prewrapped food on Styrofoam dishes. Only one sitdown restaurant, attractive Host International. Two bars each terminal, open 7:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. Shopping facilities: minimal. One barbershop. Emergency treatment center attended by paramedics (24 hr.), but 13 hospitals are within 5 min. Overall: uninspired but adequate...
There was no way to tell if the meeting would be a sitdown or a shootout when the group assembled at 8:10 p.m. in the lobby of the B'nai B'rith Building. With the ambassadors were Chiefs Cullinane and Rabe, and the police commander, Joseph O'Brien, who had investigated the murder of Khaalis' children and was trusted by Khaalis...