Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fortnight lopped out of Nixon's own busy campaign schedule might be considered a serious political misfortune, but Nixonmen argued that he could profitably use the hospital stay for needed rest and staff work. With Nixon abed. Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge spent the Labor Day weekend touring Catskill mountain resorts and New York public beaches in company with Rockefeller...
Telling the Time. In summer there were weekend fishing excursions to Smithfield Pond ("They had lovely beaches, and the water wasn't too cold. I can remember how we used to ride the horses into the lake"). Birthdays were always special celebrations, with ice cream from the hand freezer on the back stoop. Soon after her twelfth birthday, Maggie went to work on Saturdays at Green Brothers' for io/ an hour. As a high school girl, she often filled in as night switchboard operator at the local telephone company. One of her frequent callers, who usually wanted...
...largest hot dog stand-is Nathan's Famous on Brooklyn's Coney Island. To Nathan's gaudy green and white stands each summer flock many of the millions of visitors to Coney, gobbling up more than 200,000 hot dogs (at 20? each) on a weekend. Summer or winter, Nathan's never closes. Its customers have braved blizzards just to reach a Nathan's hot dog: it is a regular last stop for many early-morning survivors of Manhattan's cafe society. In all, Nathan's Famous sells more than...
...grossed more than $3,000,000. Under prodding from his two sons, Nathan has reluctantly expanded into a Long Island restaurant and a catering service. He has also diversified his fare, now sells 4,500 lbs. of shrimp and 1,400 lbs. of frogs' legs each summer weekend. Although businessmen often offer to back him in a nationwide chain, Nathan always refuses. "I won't have my, name over the door," he says, "unless I can be there myself to keep an eye on the grill...
...maritime might of France had been destroyed in the egalitarian fury of the Revolution, when brilliant naval officers, no matter how patriotic, were guillotined merely because they were of noble birth. And egalitarianism (as any latterday weekend yachtsman knows) does not work afloat. Worse yet, Napoleon had no understanding of sea power-let alone naval strategy and tactics. He frayed the already frazzled nerves of his naval commander in chief, the vacillating Villeneuve, with whimsically changing orders. For two years his captains were reduced to an exasperating game of maritime hide-and-seek until Horatio Viscount Nelson, Vice Admiral...