Word: whether
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million." Says Bob Snow, owner of the Rosie O'Grady entertainment-cum-preservation complexes in Orlando and Pensacola: "At the first auction I paid $4,500 for a real historic bar from Chicago. This year ordinary bars are bringing $45,000. 1 don't know whether it's the total devaluation of the dollar or total inflation, or a general dissatisfaction with shoddy material. Some of this is good, beautifully made stuff." Adds a woman who has recently made a genuine fortune in Western land development: "Out here it's all spend it, wear it, show...
...increasingly busy public information switchboard at the Johnson Space Center, one of the most frequent questions from callers was whether pieces of Skylab would remain Government property and must be surrendered by their finders. "No," replied NASA'S Terry White. "We slammed the hatch on Skylab in 1974. Anyone can keep the pieces and put them on their coffee tables...
...question no longer began with an if or a maybe. Last week even his top advisers were asking themselves not whether but on what day President General Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza Debayle would step down; rumor swirled throughout war-torn Nicaragua that his leave-taking was hardly hours away. Finally, Somoza himself spoke. "I am like a tied donkey righting with a tiger," he said in a subdued voice at week's end, referring to his war with the Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.). "Even if I win militarily, I have no future." He thus went ahead and placed...
...referendum question introduced by City Councilor Alfred E. Velluccion whether Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass) should be a presidential candidate will appear on the ballot in next fall's Cambridge municipal elections...
...question of whether or not Kennedy's popularity is high in Cambridge is moot," City Councilor Saundra Graham said yesterday. Graham cast the one dissenting vote on the motion to put the question of Kennedy's candidacy on the ballot. "Kennedy should decide for himself if he is going to run, not me or anyone else," she said. "We should not try to draft someone for the presidency...