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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shelter I slept in last night is the oldest on the kibbutz. It was first used during Israel's war for statehood in 1948. This shelter was better prepared. It came equipped with a pick-axe, so the survivors could later dig themselves out of the rubble...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, | Title: Life Within the Bunker | 5/10/1978 | See Source »

...Convair 880, named Lisa Marie for Presley's daughter, will take off on two wings and a prayer for the Dallas Cowboys Texas Stadium and the start of a three-month, 50-state tour. For $300, visitors not only will get to climb aboard and "see where he slept when he visited with friends," but will receive 15 sets of color photos of the plane's interior and twelve kits of Add-A-Tune engine booster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: God and Elvis in Illinois | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...gonna vote." Then the demonstration sputtered out, as has the strike for the most part. Nearly all U.S. farmers are concentrating now on plowing and planting, encouraged by the rise in some farm prices. Next morning the strikers began leaving the motels where they had slept three and four to a room. "What the hell," said Wheat Farmer Wilbur Burnside of eastern Washington, with back-to-the-land stoicism, "we tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Farm Bill Fizzle | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...herd of tanned and blonded young Aryan demigods frolicking in the sun. When I looked around me I noticed a girl from Michigan State, coated with coconut oil, lying next to us and leering at me without speaking. I put my heard back in the sand and slept...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manifest Destiny: | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

Paulovich tucked that experience under his belt when he decided to spend the summer at Marine Platoon Officer Candidates School in beautiful downtown Quantico, Virginia. Too short to be eligible for the Marines, Paulovich says he slept on a board the night before his physical and stood on his tip-toes at the weigh-in. "Sarge" (his nickname from day one of sophomore year when he returned to Cambridge sporting a Frank Freidel crew-cut) finished in the top 5 per cent of his Marine class and plans to take a commission following graduation from Harvard next year...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: His Heart's Not Short | 3/21/1978 | See Source »

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