Word: walks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Photographer Peter Jordan remained in Kolwezi to capture the invasion's grim aftermath on film and made his own way using abandoned cars and bare-rimmed bicycles when he chose not to walk the deserted streets of the town alone. He expects never to return to Kolwezi...
...needs movies on a long-distance passenger train? The odyssey provides enough walk-around human drama to fuel a TV series. (It might be called The Off-Broadway Limited.) A young woman, in tears after midnight, confesses that she is going home to Louisiana after a tragic love affair. A black businessman muses somberly on the humiliations that clouded his childhood. A retired railroad executive recounts the great train trips he has made around the world. An elderly waiter talks of the days when he and the rest of the dining-car crew on some routes had to sleep...
When an inspector from the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) tried to walk unannounced into Ferrol G. ("Bill") Barlow's shop in Pocatello, Idaho, almost three years ago, the irritated proprietor refused him entry. Barlow, an electrical and plumbing subcontractor, cited the Bill of Rights, a copy of which hangs on his office wall, and particularly the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches" of private property. The inspector, Barlow insisted, needed a search warrant to inspect his place of business. After Barlow ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector...
Boston's Neptune Lobster shop, located near the moored U.S.S. Constitution, sends a fishmonger to walk alongside the busloads of foreign tourists, displaying a 15-lb. monster lobster. The Germans are by far the most susceptible. Says Dietmar Kruesel, a member of the West German consulate: "A lot of them carry frozen lobsters home in their luggage...
...happy. They are reservists who never dreamed they would be called up for active duty. "We should have known," says one. "When we went on maneuvers last summer, we had a training exercise about being in southern Lebanon, and here we are. You can't take a walk outside the perimeter here because you could be picked up by the Palestinians. About the only thing to look at is the damned goats, and you wonder if someone is using them as a cover to sneak by you." To celebrate their national day on May 17, the Norwegians flew...