Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Callaghan's real troubles, however, began last October when he confounded the experts by failing to call an election that many of them thought he could win. Inflation was 8%, the pound was strong, the unions were peaceful, and the Prime Minister was running well ahead of Margaret Thatcher in popularity polls. Nevertheless, Callaghan passed up the opportunity and seemed inclined to let his government run its full five years, or until October...
...thought Animal House was gross? Try mud fights. Cheryl Ladd emerges from one in her upcoming ABC-TV fantasy about a South Dakota girl who succeeds in Hollywood. In it, Ladd and several dancing friends are fooling around on the roof of a shed when they suddenly fall into a handy pigsty, landing in 18 in. of gunge. All join in for a high-spirited fray-for-all. But the pictures are not as dirty as they might seem. Cheryl rises muddy but unbowed because the glop-chacun à son goo -was specially sanitized for the event...
...turned out that the Vietnamese had been subjected to as much as five hours daily of "thought reform." The prisoners were divided into groups of eight, which were isolated from each other except at recreation periods when conversation was forbidden. Despite the massive indoctrination, only a handful of impressionable young recruits were willing to denounce Viet Nam openly as the "aggressor...
...Bahamas, an aide retorted, "Where else can he go?" A spokesman for the Bahamian government insisted that the monarch was there only for a "short visit." There were rumors that the Shah was considering Brazil as his next stop. Meanwhile, he could console himself with the thought that the Bahamas for centuries have been a refuge for exiles-including, most recently, the late Howard Hughes and fugitive Financier Robert Vesco...
...downtown D.C. disco. Doffing coat and tie, munching from a health spread of brown rice, raw vegetables and yogurt soup, President Carter's national security adviser danced almost every feverish dance. His evening was interrupted only once for a White House call (subject undisclosed). When asked what he thought of the movie, he replied in diplomatic circum-speak: "It was a benign view of a difficult past...