Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exorbitant prices. Buyers were eager to pour out their tales." Woodbury's assignment in the end proved a blessing. A source gave him a tip that led him to an apartment overlooking Biscayne Bay. Says Woodbury: "Ideal, and the price, $50 under my budget. I move in this weekend...
...Britain's James Callaghan is that of one pol for another. His regard for France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is rooted in the Frenchman's intellect. Egypt's Anwar Sadat made sense to Carter. "I wouldn't mind spending a weekend fishing with him," said Carter about Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau. While he was in London, the President met with the leaders of 16 nations from Luxembourg to Greece. He was armed with personal fact sheets and psychological profiles of each...
...Soviet-furnished army and air force are short of equipment; the Sudanese suffered considerable losses while putting down an attempted coup last year that allegedly was backed by Libya, the most steadfast of the remaining Soviet clients in the region. Libya, of course, has just finished fighting a weekend war with Egypt, which abrogated its friendship treaty with Moscow only last year. Egypt has also warned Libya to knock off its guerrilla activities against Chad, a former French territory adjacent to Libya and Sudan. Libya, in the meantime, is sending military aid to Ethiopia-the only Arab state...
...dull office job. Elsa is 19 and his mistress. "A year ago, when Victor was still a tax accountant, he fished Elsa out of his typists' pool. She flapped and wriggled a little, and then lay still, legs gently parted." This plummy pair is to spend the weekend cataloguing marketable monstrosities at the mansion of Hamish, an elderly millionaire, and his beautiful, young, crippled wife Gemma...
Some reporters, however, complain that the addition of Living, Home and Weekend has stretched the news-gathering staff, for all its size, somewhat thin. Others note that the sections themselves are rather thin, and that Editors Annette Grant of Living, Nancy Newhouse of Home and Marvin Siegel of Weekend are reaching rather desperately for ever more trivial articles to fill them (last week's Living devoted an entire page to dill pickles). Still, one close reader agrees that the paper is not going soft. "People who run down the Times ought to have to compete with it every day," says...