Word: alongers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter okays the race track and Congress gives its approval, which seems likely, the first MXs should start moving along the ovals...
This is quite a change from the college campus atmosphere that was established at the center in the early 1970s to make Navy life more attractive to recruits. The Navy decided to get tough after hundreds of trainees rioted for two days in late June in a park and along the sleazy strip of bars, pool halls and prostitute haunts near the base's gates. Complaining that they had been continually cheated by merchants on the strip, the sailors went on a window-smashing, rock-throwing rampage that ended only when the Shore Patrol and North Chicago police officers...
...experts from eight federal agencies, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, was the oil's elusive quality. In contrast to other major spills, which usually move on the surface of the water, much of this oil has weathered, sunk and is moving along as deep as 40 ft. below the surface. The sausage-shaped rubberized barriers that were towed into place by the Coast Guard to protect the beaches extend only less than 3 ft. below the surface. Said John Robinson of the NOAA: "We have never seen anything like it. There...
Macias, 57, had been an obscure civil servant before he was elected President in 1968. But once in power, says an acquaintance, he became "a total dictator who had a large charisma and could carry people along with him." That did not go for the economy, however. Skilled foreign planters and workers fled, and the country's key cocoa exports collapsed...
...fourth floor with me were the opera-nut (who also accompanied her music with an out-of-tune recorder) and her clean-cut roommate, along with a hodgepodge of very smart people who stayed behind closed doors studying most of the year. The women also had to cope with Chuck's completely inept attempts at seduction ("Can I borrow your typewriter?"). It was lonely up there, and I hated everyone...