Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marines jumped off at 5 a.m., firing submachine guns as they raced toward the train, scattering panicked cattle in nearby pastures. Six Starfighter jets of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, with afterburners roaring, streaked out of the sky and dropped smoke bombs to give the troops cover. The air attack was meant to confuse and intimidate the terrorists; clearly, no strafing or bombing was possible while the hostages were inside the train. TIME'S Peter Kronenberg, who witnessed the operation, reported that "the howling of the planes was terrifying. They came back five times and then there was only...
...University librarians perpetually devise and abandon schemes to force students to return their books on time and Cambridge officials continue to fret over illegally parked cars. And the town remains, as The Crimson warned incoming freshmen more than two decades ago "a dreary place, given to rain and coal smoke and brown, granulated slush." Perhaps most importantly, or to some, most disappointingly, the campus has recaptured the quietude and air of normalcy that enveloped it in those early peaceful days 29 Septembers...
...Harvard Medical School in the fall. Says Bryan: "I've made a decision about what I want to do for the rest of my life. I like to be with people more than just being in a lab all day." The tall, lanky graduate does not smoke-either cigarettes or marijuana-seldom drinks beer, is largely apolitical, and spends his spare hours waltzing and tangoing with other members of M.I.T.'s ballroom dancing club. A neat dresser, with every short blond hair in place, he admits: "I'm probably more conservative than most, more traditional...
...this William Goldman's script lays out with admirable clarity and for something like half the film's running time. When events begin to overwhelm dramatic logic, Director Attenborough loses his design in the smoke and din of a huge, confused battle. Then, too, there is an attempt to humanize the conflict by recounting sundry vignettes of what life was like for troops serving below staff level. By the time James Caan has got his wounded captain to hospital and Elliott Gould has thrown a temporary bridge across a stream in record time and Robert Redford...
Just how close are Burns and Carter? Liberals fear that they might be turning into the political Odd Couple of all time-Carter the grinning lifelong Democrat; Burns the somber, smoke-wreathed Republican. Burns, after all, was Dwight Eisenhower's chief economic adviser, Richard Nixon's Counsellor and, though theoretically removed from politics when he was named Federal Reserve chairman in 1970, a close confidant of Gerald Ford's. During the campaign, Candidate Carter rapped Burns' Federal Reserve for its conservative monetary policies. He also made much of a proposal to make the term...