Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this week's cover story on housing concludes, the single-family house-that symbol of the old American Dream-is becoming dearer and dearer to buy. No one knows that better than our correspondents, most of whom are transferred from one bureau to another on an average of every three years. Thus they are almost continually in the escalating housing market and find it easy to empathize with other frustrated homeseekers...
...done was something of a miracle. After 13 years of often bitter negotiations, "principles of an agreement" on a Panama Canal Treaty were finally signed last week. If the treaty is formally approved?and that could prove a very big "if'?the fabled "Big Ditch," supreme symbol of American ingenuity and determination for generations, will gradually come under Panama's control...
...courts, the Nazis rescheduled their parade for July 4. But even after the U.S. Supreme Court in mid-June ordered a fast review, an Illinois appellate court scheduled a hearing for July 8, then ruled that any Nazi march through Skokie must be without swastikas. The reasoning: the symbol constitutes "fighting words" that would provoke the ordinary Skokie citizen to violence, and thus cannot be tolerated as ordinary free speech. Rather than march denuded of swastikas, the Nazis appealed further...
...snap victims' spinal cords. Name: Jaws. Orthodontist's nightmare. Running gag is that each time he is dispatched-trapped in building cave-in, flung from speeding train, tossed into shark tank, even torpedoed-Jaws (Richard Kiel) implacably reappears. In his silly, mechanical, likable way, a perfect symbol for Bond films. They're attacked, dismissed, put out of mind, but keep coming back and back and back...
...Charryse, 3½, and Stephanie, 2-have stabilized Carew's life. Although he remains an Episcopalian, he studies his wife's religion and observes Jewish traditions and holidays. His only jewelry, besides his wedding band and an ID bracelet, is a gold chain and chai, the Hebrew symbol for health. It was given to him in 1975 by his father-in-law shortly before his death...