Word: solider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world. Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co. estimates it will do $200,000 in new business this year selling salmon-fishing equipment. And in Manistee, Mich., where the cohos are running this week on their annual spawning run, the town's 16 hotels and motels are booked solid, and a city ordinance had to be passed to keep trailers and trucks off the streets at night. Charter boats are charging $25 for half a day. This year the local bait shop, Fishermen's Center, which sold $1,300 worth of lures on one recent Saturday, is open...
...recollections of the kind hearts and sometimes genteel people who lived in the town where he grew up, Pine Grove, Pa. (pop. 2,267). He has written three books about the mores of "Unionville, Pa.," Pine Grove's fictional counterpart, and they are, for the most part, splendidly solid. His latest, alas, is not. The Aristocrat is slender and seemingly self-indulgent. It would be slick as well, were it not for Richter's imperturbable sincerity. He presents a caricature of an indomitable spinster straight from Southern romance as if she were a discovery, and his very...
...loss of Vaccarello and Szaro may be crucial to the Crimson's victory hopes since they normally give the offensive backfield solid depth, backing up starters Vic Gatto and Ray Hornblower...
Alaska (3): A solid G.O.P. organization under Governor Walter Hickel should carry the once safely Democratic state for Nixon...
...landmarks of the new Afghanistan are quickly visible to the visitor who jets into the gleaming airport of Kabul, the capital, or who drives the solid new blacktop highways. From those roads, however, other sights can be seen. Long caravans wind across distant valleys, as they have for centuries past. In the south, high-walled family compounds housing fierce Pathan tribesmen still stud the countryside. In the bleak mud houses of northern villages, young children often go blind weaving and knotting traditional Bukhara rugs. Nomad Kuchis seek fresh pasture land for their camels and fat-tailed sheep on the desolate...