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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later in the week, while Carter stayed home in Washington to work, Rosalynn flew to Quito for the inauguration of Jaime Roldds Aguilera as Ecuador's first democratically elected President after nine years of dictatorships. This week Carter resumes his travels with a flight to St. Paul, where he will board Delta Queen, an old stern-wheeler that will take him and 188 other tourists on a week-long trip down the Mississippi River. At each stop the President plans to repeat his energy lesson. After the boat docks at St. Louis, he will head east...
...self-glorification is both nourished and exported in a growing number of slick regional and city magazines. Moreover, metropolises and counties now go to exorbitant lengths to build spectacular sports arenas, convention centers and cultural palaces, ostensibly to serve the public but also as a form of chest thumping. St. Louis has constructed an enormous and now familiar arch with no clear purpose other than to provide something for the town to brag about besides the Mississippi River. Today, it seems that every place is willing to suffer almost anything to get its picture on television or into films. Chicago...
Local chauvinism habitually thrives on the disparagement of rival places or areas. Thus Minneapolis enjoys writing off St. Paul as though it were a mill village, and Dallas takes malicious glee in depicting Fort Worth as the sticks. South Dakotans often pretend to believe that North Dakotans are an alien race, and northern Californians regard the state's southerly part as a land of incurable kooks. Chronic twitting, in fact, may be taken as a sure sign that provincial pride is robust...
Harvard will buy the Gulf Oil gas station and the surrounding lot at the junction of Mass Ave and Harvard St. from the oil company on September...
...beat the Confi Guide for straightforward, no bullshit advice about what courses you should take. It's on sale for only $2 at registration, around the campus or at the Crimson, 14 Plympton St...