Word: wiesen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among those on hand for the five-day, $3 million bash were, for example, Ernest and Audrey Wiesen of Wauwatosa, Wis. They went to work for Carter after he gave a talk at their daughter's school, and when they received an invitation, they asked themselves why not-and saved $600 to make the journey. Postal Worker Ginny Scott of Santa Ana, Calif., took her Las Vegas vacation money and used it for the Inauguration instead. Said she: "I would have lost it in Vegas anyway." Then there was the group of maids from Detroit, Tulsa, New York...
...Brooklyn, Rudolf Wiesen, a store designer, caught the city of New York trying to reduce the time limit on the 10¢ parking meter in front of his office from two hours to one hour. After Wiesen reminded the city's traffic department about the freeze, the department agreed to reconvert other parking meters around the city to pre-Aug. 15 prices. > In Hopkinton, N.H., some 30,000 New Englanders flocked to a county fair over the Labor Day weekend. After visitors complained that this year's $2 admission charge, 50¢ more than last year's, was an unfair fair fare...