Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon is so malicious that it might even destroy the presidency in order to destroy him. The real threat to this country is the unchecked monopolistic power of the press, as well as the TV dictators, who have supreme command of the air waves. (MRS.) GRACE A. COREY Sun City, Ariz...
Muses Economy Minister Pham Kim Ngoc: "Jumbo jets carry charter groups from Europe to the beaches of Thailand. We also offer sun and sand. Why not Viet Nam?" A government study targets earnings from tourism at $140 million by 1980. By that time -and provided that the present uneasy truce does not get any uneasier -Ngoc even visualizes Con Son Island, the home of the notorious tiger cages for political prisoners, catering instead to tourists. They would enjoy miles of palm-fringed beaches that are occupied mainly by giant tortoises...
...Florida's Sun City retirement community near Tampa, a street sign warns motorists: DRIVE SLOWLY, GRANDPARENTS PLAYING. They are indeed-in ways that their children can scarcely imagine. In Sun City, as well as in other places across the nation, elderly people in growing numbers are having emotionally close, long-term affairs. Young people prefer to think of their parents and grandparents as old moralists, says Unitarian Minister Richard Boeke of St. Petersburg. In fact, he asserts, many of the aged are still looking for sex and romance...
Like teenagers, old people date and dance. They send scorching glances at each other across the room. They talk about "steadies," and the women grow possessive about "boy friends." In St. Petersburg, Boeke reports that his flock includes two Casanovas of 75. In Sun City, a former model who looks 60 but is 82 boasts of having "the best boy friend in all of Sun City," a man of 72 with whom she has found "a Utopia...
After two days of experimentation, mission controllers found a compromise position for Skylab. When it was tilted so that its solar panels were at an angle of 55° to the direction of the sun's rays, adequate power was produced and the temperature in the Orbital Workshop stabilized close to a tolerable...