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...groups might have disagreed about the reasons for the war, the structure of American society, the ultimate vision for the just society, but on the central issue of the day they were in agreement--the war must stop. Now that the war seems to be over, this bedrock basis for a firm alliance is eroding, and the two groups are crumbling away from each other...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: The Movement Was Silent But Vietnam Is Winning | 6/14/1973 | See Source »

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS will start blasting a 40-foot-deep hole in the bedrock of the Yard between Lamont and Houghton Libraries this summer to make room for the Nathan M. Pusey Library. When it is finished in 1975, the Pusey Library will be an almost completely underground, three-level addition to Harvard's library system, and the first new building in the Yard since Lamont...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: The New Pusey Library: Yard Beautification | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

...besmirched his reputation for a century and altered the politics of the day. Teapot Dome, which blew up after the death of Warren Harding, became a textbook case in every hamlet in America. The deepfreezes and minks of Harry Truman's day caused his popularity to plummet to bedrock. And when Bernard Goldfine's rug was found in the living room of Sherman Adams, the White House Iron Man of Dwight Eisenhower's Administration, the national outcry reached such a pitch that Ad ams resigned in something like disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Is Nobody Indignant Any More? | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...bedrock car nuts, and there are tens of thousands of them in L.A., are the car customizers, the people who are forever rebuilding cars. The Nossecks are typical. Donald Nosseck, some extra cash on hand from his chain of dress shops and dissatisfied with his Toyota 2000GT, took the car to Chief Kar Kustomizer George Barris, out in North Hollywood, and had Barris totally rebuild the little sports car into something more like an old Jaguar XK.140. After that, he couldn't stop. Nosseck next took his 1970 Firebird 400 to Barris, had him plunge through the roof with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Where the Auto Reigns Supreme | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

Estimated to have been between 20 ft. and 30 ft. high, the 175 million gallons of raging water released from the dam simply demolished the valley. In the dozen miles closest to the dam, its enormous force stripped the soil down to bedrock in places, lifted buildings, cars and trees and hurled them downstream. A frame church was seen riding the flood's crest like a flagship, before being battered to splinters. In one community the only building left standing was the company store. Several bodies were later found floating in the Guyandot some 20 miles downstream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST VIRGINIA: Disaster in the Hollow | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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