Word: summers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chews gum and smokes a Winston at the same time while a suspicious customs agent checks his bags. Naturally, Billy does not read the papers; otherwise he would have known about the tight security checks at Istanbul airport caused by a rash of hijackings and terrorist bombings in the summer of 1970. His smuggling escapade comes to an abrupt end; and his ordeal is only just begining...
...work intensely for most of the year but, for four months during the summer, I disappear," said Einhorn. Usually he seeks a place where there is a cabin, fresh water, no telephone, and lots of books, he said
Marie Howe also denies any impropriety in the hiring of Ralph Scott, son of her close personal friend Leonard Scott, as a page in the state legislature last summer. Howe says Scott was hired by House Speaker Thomas McGee, although she admits that "I may have put in a call to McGee" on Scott's behalf. Howe calls her companion's son "very capable. We were lucky to get him." Scott worked directly in Marie Howe's office...
...ballpoint pen mark on the reading list that it's hourly season once again, that time of year when summer vacation officially ends and the reserve desk at Lamont looks like a rugby scrum...
Former President Gerald R. Ford appointed Fraser to a presidential labor-management council in 1975. Fraser said one reason he resigned this summer was that the committee, which included the chairmen of major corporations, "knew the cost of everything and the value of nothing," in reference to their opposition to occupational safety and health standards...