Word: crested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mississippi's highest waters bore down on Memphis and points south, the levee system was holding up well, but the danger remained. "What concerns us," said a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg, Miss., "is that this is a long, slow crest. The odds against being spared heavy April rains go up every day. We are hoping that we can get through the next couple of weeks without a big downpour." That hope seemed dashed early last weekend as rains began to pelt parts of the lower river valley and flash flood warnings went...
Nixon is not alone in that belief. New York's Nelson Rockefeller is urging his state to adopt mandatory life sentences without parole for any convicted adult drug pusher. In many cities, police are riding a renewed crest of respect; New York and Los Angeles each have two ex-policemen campaigning to join Philadelphia's Frank Rizzo as tough mayors with a no-nonsense attitude that was forged in a blue uniform. At least four state legislatures have reauthorized the death penalty and half the remaining states are considering similar legislation. The President was very much participating...
...long ago the Crest and Western motels in Los Angeles charged only $7 a night and their rooms still went begging. Now they are charging $26.50 -and turning customers away. The difference is that the two motels now show blue movies in their rooms over closed-circuit television...
...Crest's manager, Nick Valenta, has a ready explanation: "About 90% of our guests," he says, "are married couples who always wanted to see this stuff but didn't want to go out to a skin flick in a bar. Now they can watch in the privacy of their own room...
...Liberation. Over it are the words Gay, Black, Women's, Chicano and People's. These are the remnants of a great tidal wave of protest that broke in Rip's absence, still sporadically coursing through the streets and campuses. The year 1968 was at once its crest and ebb. Rip was gone when Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis and when 172 cities went up in smoke, when 3,500 were injured and 27,000 arrested. He was gone when Bobby Kennedy was murdered two months later, and when two months afterward, the city of Chicago...