Word: clearings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, a decade after the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention, a group of latter-day Yippies shouted the old battle cry: "The whole world is watching!" But hardly anyone was. Then the Yippies went marching through the streets, and the friendly police even provided two motorcyclists to clear the way. They sat in a busy intersection, chanting, "The streets belong to the people!" But when a few cops finally told them to move on, they meekly complied. They smoked pot and slept in the park, but their main complaint to the bored police was, "How come...
Where are the snowplows of yesteryear? Back in 1956, the Nebraska town of Sidney (pop. 6,300) spent $50 to buy a used Civil Defense truck (1936 vintage), and put a plowing blade on it to clear the town airport of snow. Last fall, when City Manager Merle Strouse decided that the old plow had reached "the last of its days," he investigated new snowplows and found that they cost $25,000, more than twice the $9,800 that the town wanted to pay. He asked the Federal Aviation Administration to help out. The FAA decided that the town really...
...farther than the eye can see: a great tapestry pf shimmering blue lakes and islands forested with silver birch, black spruce and majestic red pines. Eagles and ospreys wheel overhead, while moose and wolves roam the woods as they did in the days of the 17th century voyageurs. Crystal-clear lakes teem with enough trout and walleyed pike to make even the fishing novice feel like the compleat angler. At dusk the call of the loon is heard...
...sealed from the outside world. But after this conclave-perhaps out of sheer exuberance over the results-a number of participants proved talkative, and TIME'S Jordan Bonfante and Roland Flamini have pieced together much of the story of the proceedings in the Sistine Chapel. It is clear that Luciani came to power through no accident, but as a result of a spontaneous consensus that evolved from three agreements reached during the lengthy pre-conclave period that followed the death of Pope Paul...
Explained another Cardinal: "I think all of us had agreed in our own minds before the conclave that we needed to go back to a humble, pastoral man, although we did not really consult each other about it. And then, when we went in, it became clear to us that this was what we wanted." The third consensus, in the words of still another participant, was that the new Pope be "not obvious, and not controversial...