Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoopla is also taking a playful turn. Clear Lake, Texas, Houston's space suburb, is staging a series of parades, dances, wine tastings and baby contests (with the toddlers dressed in moon suits). At Cape Canaveral, moon buffs hope to form a 26-mile human chain along the beaches. The Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas will be the site of a show-biz bash called "America's Salute to the Astronauts"; any of them who turn up have been promised a flight to San Clemente, Calif., for a poolside lunch with former President Richard Nixon. At Chicago...
...living in a city apartment and riding a trolley to work, people wanted a home in the suburbs and an auto or preferablly two. As a consequence, mass transit became caught in a vicious downward spiral: the more riders that were lost the worse the service became; in turn, bad service drove away additional riders...
...only four are left, and of them only two- Grumman Flexible and General Motors- are making city buses. Their combined output is fewer than 3,000 a year. Hence the U.S., which will need at least 36,000 new buses during the next four years, will have to turn to foreign manufacturers...
...purchase price of the computer. With this magical policy, Christopher found it easy to persuade banks to lend him the huge sums that he needed to buy computers. The company or agency that leased the equipment agreed to make monthly payments that Christopher used to retire bank debt and turn a large profit...
...court this term refused to hear the appeal of New York Times Reporter Myron Farber, who spent 40 days in jail for contempt for refusing to turn over to the defendant his notes at a murder trial. And it refused to review a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that allowed Government investigators access to the telephone company's records of phone numbers called by journalists. Both cases, along with Branzburg, make it more difficult for reporters to preserve the confidentiality of sources...