Word: summer
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...Katahdin, Maine's tallest mountain, is just short of a mile high. During clear summer, spring and fall weekends its rockstrewn summit is always crowded. Besides offering an impressive view, Katahdin marks the starting-point of the 2000-mile Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia...
THEN CAME THE SNOWS. Bilandic was inexplicably helpless before the elements and voters, raised on an image of "the city that works," grew increasingly irritated. The incumbent tried advertising with a focus on the good times. His T.V. spots featured the sunny lakefront Chicagofest of last summer, when the Mayor was at the peak of his powers. The challenger showed snow-bound commuters and photos of herself with Daley. Laboring under Byrne's verbal barrage and a charge that one of his aides was improperly awarded a no-bid snow-removal contract, Bilandic played the martyr--an ill-advised ploy...
This past summer the National Educational Association (NEA) pressed for the splitting of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare into a separate Department of Education, a proposal supposedly motivated, if you listen to them, because of their great concern for our nation's children. They were notably hush about the fact that President Carter had promised them such a department, with a secretary most likely from among their own ranks, in return for their first endorsement of a presidential candidate in their history. And when you're talking about an organization numbering almost two-and-one-half million teachers...
...splash." Bleah. That's Woody Allen trying to be arty. All that Freudian bullshit.... I like the guy, he's genius and all that, but he tried to be Bergman in one movie, and not even Bergman could do that. Anyway, Bergman's best movie is Smiles of a Summer Night. I wept at that. Good comedies are usually...
Hedrick, 68, whose florid face testifies to years spent in the summer sun and winter winds of Wichita, points out that "this certainly isn't the world's fanciest climate, so we must have other advantages." In his view, one echoed by various local business and labor chiefs: "A work ethic still exists in this part of the world. People feel they have to give a day's work for a day's pay." Local people commonly speak of the city's Midwestern "openness." Says Hedrick: "I was in North Palm Beach the other...