Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ranches are being broken up into "ranchettes," absurd little parcels of land in the middle of nowhere. The owner thereby becomes a small parody of the land-holder, the cattle baron. Some ranchers are turning their land over to "exotic game safaris," importing African animals (gazelles or eland or Cape buffalo) and parading them over the range to be shot, for a handsome price, by city boys dressed up like Jeremiah Johnson...
Police used water cannon and tear gas against 200 students, most of them white, at the University of Cape Town who carried placards that said, "Botha is a terrorist...
...Bird photo reconnaissance satellite into orbit. And just two days before the anniversary ceremonies were held last week, yet another U.S. space failure occurred: the main engine of a $30 million Delta rocket carrying a $57.5 million weather satellite shut down just 71 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral. The Delta was destroyed by ground command. "We like to feel we're infallible," Shuttle Astronaut Bob ) Crippen told the subdued workers at the cape. "We're not. We proved that on Jan. 28 and underscored it this past Saturday...
Once again a fireball flashed over Cape Canaveral. Again there would be an intensive investigation to find out what had gone wrong. Inexplicably, America's space program seemed to have shifted into reverse. Even as the Challenger astronauts were buried, more gloom overtook a once proud space agency...
Grief got Viscott into the card-writing game. When his first marriage was breaking up, he found himself trudging sadly along a Cape Cod beach, jotting down notes about some of his jumbled feelings. Later he showed them to his business partner, who said excitedly, "You know what you have here? These are greeting-card messages!" Viscott launched a card company, then signed on with American Greetings when the business failed. Says Viscott: "Once I heard a voice saying 'Someday you will tell people what they really feel inside,' and that's what...