Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband is a "regular" summer weekend commuter-regularly late. We fondly refer to the airline as "Scare New England...
...Over the weekend the President and his top aides repeatedly consulted the veteran advisers, who were, inevitably, dubbed the wise men. Taking nothing for granted, and drawing on their own experience in Washington, they peppered Administration officials with questions, expressed their doubts and reservations and argued among themselves. Opinion ranged from hawkish to dovish, with most of the group falling somewhere in between. On Saturday morning they attended a meeting in the White House with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Though he had been on vacation when the Cuban uproar began, he agreed with Vance that it had been overblown...
...poignant milestone in automotive history. Last weekend movers cleared out the four-room, twelfth-floor corner suite in Dearborn, Mich., from which Henry Ford II for most of the past 34 years had run the auto empire founded by his grandfather. Though Ford, 62, will remain as board chairman, he has stepped down as chief executive, ending three generations of day-to-day family management at the nation's third largest industrial firm. His departure is not at an auspicious time in Ford's fortunes. The domestic auto business faces serious problems, but Henry Ford, following a careful...
...those few minutes, condensed out of a weekend's worth of meetings and marches, T.V. viewers saw policemen use mace and clubs and dogs and firehoses to disperse protesters, so much violence that many of the demonstrators claimed a moral victory...
Federal District court judges will hear several suits alleging police brutality--one filed by a group of Harvard students--during the next few weeks. Those suits may also spotlight police tactics during the weekend. "The more times the T.V. shows that film, the better for us," another protester said...