Word: winter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kentucky venture was Richard Nixon's latest tentative and gingerly stage of reemergence, certainly not into public life but at least, for brief moments, into the view finders of public attention. A year ago he sat for the David Frost television interviews. Last winter he went to Hubert Humphrey's funeral. He and Pat flew to New York and the Bahamas, making small banter with photographers at stops along the way. They threw a party back at Casa Pacifica for some 300 returned Viet Nam P.O.W.s. Nixon also gave a party to celebrate the publication of his memoirs...
...blunders by the Carter Administration: backing a huge increase in the minimum wage, promoting Social Security tax increases and thus jacking up business costs, forcing an expensive settlement of the coal strike. Another reason is that food prices are jumping, partly because of supply shortages caused by the brutal winter. Propelled largely by food costs, wholesale prices in June rose at an annual rate...
Under a bright winter sun, twelve victims of a brutal massacre in eastern Rhodesia were buried last week in graves shadowed by the jacaranda trees of Umtali municipal cemetery. The victims were either white missionaries or the relatives of missionaries, and they included three small children and a three-week-old baby...
With reason. While the U.S. has not experienced anything like the murder of West German Business Leader Hanns-Martin Schleyer last fall or the kidnaping of Belgian Industrialist Baron Edoard Jean Empain last winter, American executives have been frequent targets of violence. Indeed, according to a tally kept by the CIA, more than 40% of the 232 terrorist-connected kidnapings reported since 1970 (almost all in Latin America and Europe) have involved businessmen, one out of five of them Americans...
...reality and reportage is not precisely history; history in which the names and places are not quite right is not yet fiction. Falling between two schools, Chesapeake is less than some of its parts: an agreeable, disposable epic destined for the summer beach, the fall bestseller lists and the winter rummage sale...