Word: souvenirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apollo astronauts are permitted to carry "Personal preference kits," in which they put small souvenir items for themselves, families and friends...
Killing macaques is against Japan's game laws, but some rascally beasts in Kyoto almost lost their hides after they invaded several souvenir shops and stole chocolates. The shopkeepers set up a vigilante organization to hunt them down. Some local scientists persuaded a group of visiting Americans to open a monkey park of their own, however, and so 124 of the animals were shipped to Laredo, Texas...
...days later the FBI traced an abandoned rented truck believed to have been used in the plot to Robert Sentner, a New Jersey souvenir manufacturer. Sentner is a high-rolling gambler who just happened to be in hock to Manny Gambino for $40,000. As the FBI focused its investigation on Sentner...
...whale that swallows visitors are sacrilegious, the promoters are quick to explain that they have enlisted the assistance of several churches to ensure interdenominational felicity. They are also taking out options to buy the land surrounding the park to prevent the appearance of anything so desecrating as "cheap souvenir joints." The expensive souvenir joints will apparently be inside Holyland, presumably in the tem ple with the money-changers...
...Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. Last month, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant and souvenir shop would be a 'second-stage' project, when more money will be available...