Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday there were some turnabouts, though, as Perkins fell from her mount just seconds from the finish of her show, dropping to eleventh place. Leading U.S. equestrian Bruce Davidson turned in a marvellous performance riding two steeds to top finishes. Davidson on Golden Griffen won the first place Atlantic Bowl, and also rode Royal Core to the third position in the standings. Only last year's winner Sue Hatherly from Great Britain prevented a one-two Davidson sweep. As for the Princess, she captured the last slot in the top ten standings...
Independent Souls. A compelling reason for canoeing's surge is its convenience. From the Youghiogheny to the Willamette, from white-water torrents to scenic waterways as placid as a bowl of vichyssoise, the U.S. is blessed with hundreds of thousands of inviting streams; Illinois alone boasts 6,500 miles of canoeable water. (Oldtimers say, "If the grass is wet, you can get a canoe through.") Canoes are simple to carry atop a car and easy to tote ("portage") around a rapids. A standard aluminum model costs $300 or less; in many areas, "the poor man's yacht...
Near Los Angeles, a 20-sq.-mi. depression has formed around the Wilmington oilfield after 35 years of exploitation. At the center of the great bowl lies the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, where a 29-ft. decline in the land level has forced the Navy, oil companies and others to build flood-control dikes. Besides twisting railroad tracks, crushing oil-well casings and undermining buildings, the slumping of the ground has also triggered small earthquakes. To jack up the sunken terrain, the city of Long Beach has been forcing water back into the ground...
Black Sunday, a national bestseller by Thomas Harris (Putnam; $7.95), supposes an attempt to obliterate a Super Bowl football game (hurrah!) along with (alas!) both teams, the TV play-by-play and color men, beer vendors, pigeons, Pinkertons and some 100,000 spectators, including the President of the U.S. The sociopath who plans this provocation is not an Arab but a defecting American named Lander, who went sour while serving time as a P.O.W. in North Viet Nam. Now he pilots the advertising blimp that floats (aha!) above every important football contest. To get all the plastic explosive he needs...
...March 2) if need be. But the Massachusetts legislators meet the year round. They are sure they can keep in step with any precipitate moves New Hampshire makes, even, says State Senate President Kevin Harrington, "if we have to hold the primary between halves of the Rose Bowl...