Word: asphaltic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plain pine coffin was opened. Marina Oswald placed two rings on her dead husband's fingers and kissed him. The coffin was closed and lowered into a 6-ft.-deep vault, which weighed 2,700 lbs., was asphalt-lined and reinforced with steel bars. Said the funeral director: "It would be extremely hard for anyone to break into the grave...
...same thing that gets into most U.S. hunters. There is no shortage of game-just a superabundance of hunters (15 million this year) and a paucity of places to hunt. Wary farmers post NO TRESPASSING signs; creeping asphalt and urban sprawl gobble up more land each year. What open land remains is often overcrowded. Last week in northern Michigan's Ogemaw County, the deer hunter population was 100 per sq. mi. In the East, it is worth a man's life to venture into the woods. "I don't know which is safer," says one hunter. "Wearing...
Spreading Asphalt. I.P.C. is not the original villain in the piece. The U.S. company simply controls a piece of land under terms that have infuriated Peruvians for generations. In the early 1800s, the La Brea area was known only for its tar pits, which were leased by the government to private contractors for limited periods. In 1826 the tar pits, with 100 surrounding acres, were sold to private investors-and there the trouble began...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:27 p.m.). The Asphalt Jungle, MGM's 1950 jewel robbery, with Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, and Marilyn Monroe in a bit part...
...will be a "wilderness of concrete and asphalt," said another girl. "The different levels of sidewalk look like a miniature golf course," declared a third. "We like flowers," said one little girl, who added that the flower areas should not be formal but rather "like the Secret Garden" in Radcliffe Yard...