Word: trace
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Great Heat Wave and Drought of 1980 abated slightly last week. Brief but welcome rain, ranging from a trace to a downpour, fell over the U.S. But the rains never came to central Texas, and for the past month, virtually no rain has fallen there, or in most of Oklahoma and parts of Arkansas and New Mexico. When the rains finally came down, so did temperatures that have been breaking records for weeks throughout the Midwest and South. In Dallas and Fort Worth two of the hardest-hit cities in the country, the temperature has hit 100° or more...
...dressed in rep tie and blazer, Bush is the very embodiment of the Eastern Republican Establishment that many of Reagan's rougher-hewn followers detest. Thirty-two years in Texas, where he made a fortune now estimated at more than $1.8 million in the oil business, have left no trace of the Sunbelt in his voice or manners. As a Congressman (1967-70) who later served brief terms as Ambassador to the U.N., chairman of the Republican National Committee, envoy to China and director of the CIA, he also is a member of the Washington Establishment to which Reagan...
Whoever Jacobson phoned last week from the Criterion-police refuse to divulge the name of the person-kept him on the line long enough for authorities to trace the call and alert local police. This time Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold will take special care to keep Jacobson under maximum security while he awaits trial on the latest charges against him: escape, forgery and tampering with public documents...
...mind-boggling array of expensive protective instruments is now on the market, ranging from $375 bulletproof vests for executives conducting shareholders meetings to $16,000 electronic tracking systems that help trace a kidnap victim. A particularly nervous tycoon could buy from CCS Communication Control Inc. for $200,000 the security-studded 1979 silver-gray Cadillac that was once ordered by the Shah of Iran but never delivered. For $1,500 more, his chauffeur could take a four-day evasive-driving course in Summit Point, W. Va., that teaches high-speed handling and bootleg turns to escape terrorist blockades. The head...
Jays Orthopedist Hugo Keim of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: "If you believe in evolution as I do, then you can trace all of our lower back problems to the time when the first hominid stood erect. If you're a creationist, you can look at it this...