Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...municipal bonds. The main story line-the one that will remain after most of the rest of the plot has been cut away for a workable script-is about a Mexican-American Air Force sergeant who shoots and kills a hippie drug dealer on a military base in the Southwest. The longhair, a local counterculture idol, had deflowered the sergeant's rambling rose of a daughter...
...Cowboys sounds like a natural. Good premise, good Southwest locations, and John Wayne. Things go wrong, though, because of Mark Rydell's lallygagging direction and a remarkably inept, even vicious script...
...scoring totals recorded last year, eight were by either Neumann, Carr, or Humes, but the fourth highest game total (56 points) was netted by a well known east coast star against Furman. Who was he? The tenth highest game was posted by a Southern Methodist player who led the Southwest Conference in scoring for three straight years before graduating last June...
Mujib's supporters insist that he has shown a capacity for growth. He was born 51 years ago, one of six children of a middle-class family that lived on a farm in Tongipara, a village about 60 miles southwest of Dacca. At ten, Mujib displayed the first signs of a social conscience by distributing rice from the family supplies to tenant farmers who helped work the property. "They were hungry, and we have all these things," the boy explained to his irate father, an official of the local district court...
...skip their usual Christmas party and floor show and to accept 3,200 turkeys instead. The chiefs of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. are encouraging their various departments to have Christmas parties for the residents of hospitals, orphanages and homes for the aged rather than for themselves. Pacific Southwest Airlines is giving a party for 1,500 persons in one of its San Diego hangars, but is asking that each guest bring a gift to be distributed in veterans' hospitals. Explains Lloyd Leipzig at United Artists Corp. in Los Angeles: "If you announced a big Christmas party, ennui...