Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started several years back with Night of the Living Dead, wherein marauding zombies dined on freshly slain humans. The movie was made on lo cation around Pittsburgh - that sounds like the first line of a joke but it's a fact - employing local actors and a great many spare parts from nearby butcher shops. The movie won a campy-seedy reputation and turned a nice profit. Imitations have ranged from Andy War hol's Frankenstein and Dracula lampoons to The Texas Chainsaw Murders...
...politicians in sometime attendance were Congressmen Gerald Ford and Donald Rumsfeld. When Goldwin moved to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, as an associate professor, he took the Conference Center with him. In 1969 he was made dean of St. John's and the next year spent his spare time teaching Plato's Republic to Congressmen and other notable Washingtonians, each of whom gave a lecture at the college as payment in kind. Later, Goldwin held a class for capital journalists on the writings of John Locke, the subject of his Ph.D. dissertation. Says Washington Post Columnist David Broder...
...rate prices. Moscow recently offered to sell some MIG-21s to Peru at one-third of what the comparable American-made F-5 would cost ($2 million). There is one hitch, however, in buying from the Russians: as Egypt has learned, it is sometimes very difficult to get Soviet spare parts...
...increased role of government in the sale of arms has left little room for freelance private dealers. Their sales -mostly of spare parts and used arms-comprise less than 5% of the world weapons trade. The private dealers survive primarily because their unrivaled knowledge of specific markets enables them to find customers for surplus weapons. For example, Samuel Cummings, an American who now lives in Monaco, recalls that a few years ago he was able to supply Sudan's mounted cavalry with much needed lances, which he had picked up from Argentine arsenals. With ten weapons-filled warehouses...
...quite fit. Beneath that unruffled exterior is a steely, strong-minded woman of disciplined ambition and impressive intelligence. A grocer's daughter, she won a scholarship to Oxford, where she earned an M.A. in chemistry. At 23 she was a practicing research chemist, a law student in her spare time and a parliamentary candidate running for her first office -all while preparing for her marriage to now wealthy Oilman Denis Thatcher. She lost that election, but after giving birth to twins and working several years as a barrister specializing in tax law, she entered the House of Commons...