Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chat with Begin and Sadat separately Tuesday evening and again Wednesday morning. The first time the three leaders sit down together is likely to be Wednesday afternoon. U.S. officials originally figured that the summit, though open-ended, would last only two or three days and conclude by this weekend. Now they think it may run at least through the weekend and possibly a full week...
...foundation's philosophy owes something to the distaste for competitiveness that rose out of the 1960s counterculture. But the "new games" are catching on in the mainstream. The foundation, with an annual budget of about $400,000, conducts a hundred or more weekend workshops round the country for recreation specialists, educators and health care professionals; many of them are paid by their employers to learn the new nonwinning ways. Explains O'Connell: "The games are especially popular in the Midwest, where people still have lots of community picnics and family days. They're a lot more...
...snowmobiles do not harm the environment-they only offend the elite canoe purists." Outdoor Equipment Supplier Woods Davis says that he would lose half of his business if he could not rent motorboats to vacationers. Adds John Chelesnik, an Ely fishing diehard: "I go to the woods every weekend. In one eight-hour day I can go eight times as far as a canoeist can. That's important...
...partisans on either side are willing to budge. The other weekend 300 local residents blocked access roads to the BWCA with cars and pickup trucks. "Our vacation is rather ruined," complained one frustrated canoeist. Retorted a protester: "Our lives are rather ruined...
...alone remained unblunted. In vited to a preview of a film about an alcoholic, The Lost Weekend, he declined wryly: "Would you invite Admiral Halsey to play with the boats in your baby's bathtub?" Even when it was directed at someone else, Mank's lance was really pointed toward himself...