Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were not content with just landing the Republican Convention. Declared Mayor Young: "We're not through yet. Now we'll convince the Democrats to bring their 1980 convention here too." That will take some even fancier selling. The Democratic National Committee, which will make its choice this summer, listens to Jimmy Carter, and the President is said to be whistling Dixie these days...
...President assured congressional leaders last summer that he would adjust his policy "should circumstances affecting the balance [on the Korean peninsula] change significantly." One factor that could affect Carter's decision is whether North and South Korea resume the negotiations that stalled in August 1973. There were indications last week that the two sides might again start talking. Another factor is that keeping the G.I.s in South Korea might be popular. A poll last year by Potomac Associates, a Washington think tank, found that by 52% to 35%, Americans favored maintaining ground forces in South Korea. There also...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) voted recently to allocate $43,000 for archaelogical investigations of construction sites adjacent to the route of the MBTA's Red Line extension, including a site uncovered last summer in Harvard Yard...
...only are the hours long, but the work is almost always monotonous hand labor; and many times this summer I felt I had been transported back in time several centuries. We spent most of the time picking fruit: peaches, pears, and cherries. Each day, every day, we slowly wound our way among the trees, picking the fruits as quickly as we could, as time ticked by ever so slowly. The Vallets had only 30 acres, less than one-tenth the size of the average American farm, and so every last fruit had to be picked, and not a peach could...
Most of the summer was not nearly that interesting, however. Most of my time was spent picking fruit to the ever-so-slow ticking of my watch. The peasant lifestyle was very different from anything found in America, and especially different from life at Harvard. Intellectualism was worthless in Moras En Valloire--nothing counted except how quickly a person could pick the peaches. It was a hard life, one in which a person spent most of his waking hours working, with few diversions and only the simplest of pleasures...