Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer, which will be installed over the Labor Day weekend, will probably be leased, rather than purchased, by the University. The computer has a list price of approximately $1 million...
...meantime the Billy Martin situation has gotten completely out of hand. It moved from the strange to the pathetic to the totally absurd last weekend as the Yankees announced on Old-Timer's Day that Martin would once again manage the team in the 1980 season. It's almost too weird for comment. George Steinbrenner obviously doesn't want to play the heavy, and Martin, apparently in somewhat shaky physical and mental health, wants his job back. Bob Lemon must feel great, and the rest of the club (led of late by Thurman Munson, who has been consistently hot through...
...flea market's weekend often starts just after midnight-at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. Saturday, when sellers begin to set out their wares. As early as 4 a.m., professional buyers start to appear. Many are dealers looking for bargains that they will resell at sharply marked-up prices. By early morning the casual crowds start swarming in, and then the haggling begins...
...outlandish garb that customers wear as part of the ritual. Henry Cortez, a robust Mexican American, sports a huge straw hat and tows Grandson Douglas around in a wooden wagon. "This is my flea-market hat," says Cortez, who has been going to the San Jose market almost every weekend since 1960. "And this is my flea-market wagon. I come to visit people...
...Bandzin of Boston routinely sells at one market what she earlier bought at another; last New Year's Day she cleared $165. Jon Watson supplements his income as an assistant professor at the University of Houston by hawking plants from his van and earns $300 to $600 a weekend. Some dealers have become increasingly professional, jumping from markets in the Northeast in spring and summer to those in the South in winter. At the San Jose market, the more enterprising sell as much as $70,000 annually...