Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The two leaders got along so well during a meeting at the Pentagon last December that Crowe figured a longer visit would improve relations. Military brass insist that the Soviet marshal will not get a peek at any vital secrets during his trip, but he will get to glimpse such vital institutions as a rodeo and a western-style barbecue when his tour reaches Crowe's home state of Oklahoma...
...first $6,000 is for the team," Grant said, "then my wife and I work other outings, such as the Laguna Seca racetrack, and keep those profits for ourselves." Roberto Dixon, a Panamanian who lives in Monterey and is one of Grant's proteges, is being backed for a trip home to try out for his country's Olympic team. "I've been working these booths for about four years," said Dixon, now the head cook. "I first got experience tenderizing squid steaks," he said, adding that he cannot understand why people find the squid tentacles scary. "Anyone knows that...
...weekend drew to a close, the happiest participant probably was Cory Pina, 8, winner of a contest to name the fair's squid mascot, henceforth to be called Cal Amore. Receiving a $500 savings bond and a family trip to Disneyland (plus $500 in cash for his school), Cory is already well financed for next year's squid gala...
Honorariums -- fees paid for speeches and other appearances -- are often little more than cash for the pleasure of a powerful Congressman's company. The all-expenses-paid invitations are so enticing that a lawmaker will sometimes make the trip accompanied by his family. If he has already exceeded the annual limit on outside income (about $35,000 for a Senator, $26,000 for a Congressman), he donates the speaking fee to charity. Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, will go almost anywhere golf is played. He gave 51 speeches last year; along the way he played...
...heartwarming scene in the coldest of climates. Ora Gologergen, 72, boarded Alaska Airlines' "Friendship One" flight in Nome for the 40-minute trip to Provideniya, U.S.S.R., a bleak town of dilapidated concrete buildings across the Bering Sea. There, with hugs and shouts in Yupik, her native language, she was reunited with her close childhood friend, Uksima Uksima, 73, a Siberian Eskimo. The two are among the thousands of Eskimos separated in 1948 when the cold war dropped an Ice Curtain across the Bering Strait, closing the Alaska-Siberia passage. With this flight, about 25 Eskimos living on the American side...