Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaky tire repaired, and he was unsure of its location. Although claiming to be innocent of the murder, he said he fled Memphis in his white Mustang when he saw unusual police activity near the rooming house shortly after the shooting. "As a fugitive, I tried to stay away from police," he explained with a wry smile...
...mood has been bizarre all week long as the Presley fans arrive in a city that seems to be coming apart. Trash is lying in the streets because sanitation workers stay off for a day, honoring police picket lines. Most of the firemen are also out on strike, and both they and the police are ignoring court orders to return to work. The schools are scheduled to open later in the week, but the teachers say they will not cross any picket lines. The mayor has called out the National Guard, costing the city $70,000 a day. Armed with...
...strikes and the curfew have persuaded some Elvis fans to stay home, but the hotels are still nearly 80% full (they had been booked solid for weeks in advance), and about 100,000 admirers have come to Memphis from the nearby dirt farms and even from as far away as Japan...
...Boston office. Bloom's wife also works in the travel business. "We are fairly typical," he notes. "If a couple has not made the major purchase of a house, they put their extra income into seeing the world." When the new elite travels, it is to stay longer at more distant, expensive and exotic destinations. Young two-earner couples prefer to pay more for guaranteed rather than stand-by tickets and avoid large prearranged tours; they are often willing to dish out $3,000 or more for advance bookings...
...twin Mercuries. "This is the spot!" he called. We floated noiselessly on a dusky patch of sea. The jagged line on the Fathometer confirmed that we were in the swordfish's favorite haunt, a 1,100-ft.-deep stretch of the bathtub-warm Gulf Stream. Broadbills normally stay hundreds of feet down-one reason they are so hard to catch-but in the early '70s, Cuban refugee fishermen discovered that these fish rose from the depths at night, apparently to feed on squid that in turn were feeding on microscopic plankton drifting in the cooling...