Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costumes reflect today's world. Some of the young citizens carry portable radios. The conspirator Cinna comes in from the rainstorm with a wet umbrella; he carries a businessman's attache case, which when opened turns out to contain knives for the murder (one recalls the old-time gangsters who used to conceal machine guns inside violin cases). The conspirators wear three-piece business suits. The conspiracy is hatched in a cocktail lounge; Artemidorus, the rhetoric teacher, who will try to warn Caesar of the plot, has become a journalist who eavesdrops and takes notes in a reporter...
...second wing jammed in a retracted position. The craft both overheated in orbit and was dangerously underpowered. But in the space age's first salvage mission, on May 25, 1973, Astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr. and Joseph Kerwin entered the overheated space lab and rigged a makeshift umbrella to shade the vehicle's bald spot, then spent a harrowing four hours outside the stricken craft freeing the stuck wing. During a second manned mission, on July 28,1973, the lab's thrusters sprang leaks?and a crash program to prepare a vehicle to rescue the three astronauts was undertaken...
...Life Political Action Committee. Unlike Brown's group, this Washington-based organization is primarily an umbrella organization that coordinates the activities of about 30 antiabortion groups in the states. The committee was formed by Lee Edwards, 46, deputy publicity director for Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign in 1964, and Joe Barrett, 42, a former trucking executive who had been a political backer of John and Robert Kennedy. The committee works primarily to influence elections for state legislatures by organizing political action committees at local levels...
...does leave the. game, he will have no trouble filling his days. Brock already supplements his $250,000 salary by running Lu-Wan Enterprises (named after two of his three children: Lou Jr., 15, and Wanda, 17). The firm annually sells half a million hats topped with a multicolored umbrella that Brock designed himself. The company also handles T shirts inscribed U.S. OLYMPIC SEX TEAM. In addition, Brock owns a sporting-goods store and a flower shop, both in the St. Louis area, and works as a consultant for Converse sneakers...
...theme chosen for the march, "No More Harrisburgs," was broad enough to umbrella the still nebulous philosophy of the movement. Said Organizer Massad: "Some groups want an immediate, total shutdown of all nuclear plants. Some prefer a phase-out to reduce the economic shock, and others want a moratorium until future health and hazard studies are done." The most notable political figure among the demonstrators-and among such familiar protest figures as Jane Fonda,Tom Hayden,Dick Gregory and Bella Abzug-was California's Governor Jerry Brown, who called for a moratorium on new plants but not a shutdown...