Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...throughout the exhaustive inquiries into his tangled financial dealings, the beleaguered Bert merely grinned and replied, "I've given no thought to that. I'm there to do a job." Then he flew off to his vacation home on Sea Island, Ga., for the long Labor Day weekend...
Meanwhile, the Arab League gathered in Cairo over the weekend for its first high-level meeting in six months. Chief topic on the agenda: the Palestinians. Prince Saud, who was the chairman of the meeting, declared that the Arabs would adopt "a plan of action" against the Israelis' move to create new settlements on the occupied West Bank and Gaza which he characterized as "criminal measures and a flagrant challenge endangering peace in the region." The meeting was expected to communicate to Carter the Arab message-no Palestinians, no settlement...
They come pouring in by the hundreds every weekend, avaricious tourists with gleams of glory in their eyes. The onslaught created such confusion and congestion in tiny Downieville, Calif, (pop. 500), that Sheriff Albert E. Johnson had to halt the frantic activity for four days last month. The cause of the stampede: old-fashioned gold fever...
...metal was lifted in 1975. Second, the development of portable dredges, some weighing only 25 lbs., that suck in gravel and sand and separate the heavier gold grains and nuggets. A dredge costs as little as $160; diligent-and lucky-prospectors can make $200 or more on a weekend...
This is the first year in which freshmen will live exclusively in the Yard. This weekend, the now upperclass-only Radcliffe Quadrangle was bereft of stationwagons containing freshmen's belongings...