Word: closed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawton, Okla., and Harrold, Texas, while a flurry of follow-up storms struck several Arkansas communities. By the time the skies cleared, at least 59 people had been killed and nearly a thousand injured, 200 of them critically. About 8,000 were homeless. With property damage estimated at close to $400 million, President Carter declared the stricken valley a major disaster area, making the survivors eligible for low-interest federal loans...
...view. It is an account of presence, in every sense of the word. The two men move through space and over distance, from Westernized civilization to its outposts and beyond. The author never met Nepalese or Tibetans completely isolated from the world outside their valleys, but he comes close. For Matthiessen, at least, this is a journey to the core. Time has no meaning in a land where the past is no different than the future, where there is only the present. As a Zen Buddhist, his goal is to live only in this present which he feels he does...
...achievement; the book shows that. But the book itself is an even greater one. It accomplishes what Matthiessen tried so hard to gain for himself. Even though it is about mountains a world away five years ago it is a narrative of the present, it takes the reader that close...
...with the biggest weekend of the season coming up--Friday's Penn game and Saturday's Columbia twinbill--the time for Harvard's semi-slumping baseball team to make excuses about meaningless games is fast coming to a close. FIRST GAME at Northeastern HARVARD AB R H BI Kelley, 2b 4 0 1 1 Marshall, c 3 1 2 1 Stenhouse, rf 3 0 1 0 Bingham, 1b 2 2 1 1 Tilles, dh 2 0 0 0 Knoll, ph 0 1 0 0 Peccerillo, If 3 1 1 1 Skaff, cf 3 0 0 0 St. John...
...reaching is also the term for ARCO's economic power. With annual revenues in 1977 topping $11 billion, and a net profit before taxes of close to a billion dollars, the Atlantic Richfield Company is one of the nation's largest oil firms. In 1977, it acquired the Anaconda Company, a leading mineral producer. Today ARCO's interests extend to copper, aluminum, coal, uranium, a few solar and geothermal energy operations, and even a London newspaper, The Observer...