Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smoky Mountains one time and spent an entire week inside the tent in the rain," recalls Bill Roberts of Clearwater, Fla. No more. Roberts and his wife spent $2,000 buying and transforming an old bus into a mobile three-room apartment, now go out almost every weekend with friends who own similar rigs. Camper buses are ideal for families with children. Reason: the kids get less restless en route because they have room to play in and bunks to nap on, not to mention refrigerators to snack from and -best of all-toilets...
Just two days before, "Duke" Wayne had celebrated his 60th birthday at the premiere of his 162nd picture, The War Wagon, in Arlington, Texas. Now he was working at Benning without rest through the long Memorial Day weekend to stake out No. 163, The Green Berets. He would prefer to shoot the film in Viet Nam. "But if you start shooting blanks over there," he says, "they might start shooting back." Duke knows. Last year, while touring a Marine encampment for the U.S.O., he heard the crack of Viet Cong snipers' rifles. "They were so far away," sniffs Wayne...
...union's officers notified the membership over the weekend to report this morning for picket duty. According to BGMA officers, the strike was called because of Harvard's "refusal to bargain with the BGMA's [collective bargaining] representatives, the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council...
...remember her appearing before them in the dinner line and solemnly slipping some silverware into their hands for the dates they had for gotten to provide for. On one occasion she overheard some House residents complain about the difficulties of watching the pretty girls in the line on weekend nights and returned to present them with a mirror...
Then there is TV. On a typical weekend last month, New York stations offered six baseball games, a soccer game, two horse races, a golf tournament, an auto race, and a surfing competition. As for the papers, on Sunday, the Los Angeles Times usually allots 48 columns to sport-compared with 14 to music, 13 to theater, eleven to movies, seven...