Word: crystals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approaching it on the New Jersey Turnpike just after dusk, a driver stares across sulfurous marshes, the burn-off fires of oil refineries flickering like purgatory. Then all at once, in the distance, he sees the city, a kind of Oz, its lighted crystal buildings like piled diamonds. F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that looking at Manhattan from afar was always to behold it "in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world...
...business. "I think the convention is one of the grand opportunities for live television," CBS Anchor Man Walter Cronkite told TIME's Sally Bedell. "We should let it unfold before our eyes and see it without the intercession of an editor's scissors." Says NBC Producer Les Crystal: "The convention should be treated as a story, not a program...
...from the Creeks and Cherokees as "a discharge of their debts," Bartram has no doubt that the encroachments will continue. Nor will his own words, if they are ever published, dissuade Americans from pressing ever deeper into Indian lands. Wherever he goes, he reports on natural marvels-enchanting springs, crystal lakes, whole hillsides blazing with azaleas, potentially rich farm lands -that are sure to entice others to brave the wilds and tame them too. Bartram himself is next going into the largely unexplored territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi that is controlled by the Creek and Choctaw Indian...
...costumed as the world's only sexy rhino. Melody pours from a marvel designed by one Nick O'Lodeon, which features 29 instruments. A belly dancer gyrates, jugglers toss balls, and minstrels stroll. On the next level is a nonstop vaudeville show and a sparkling crystal carousel filled with dolphins, Pegasi, centaurs, griffins and a 3,500-lb. whale...
Here was the old success story, notwithstanding a good measure of social irony: Horatio Alger reincarnated in a tall but otherwise physically mediocre, white boy from Crystal City, Missouri, triumphs in a black, city game played by the likes of Wilt Chamberlain. The religio-scientific devotion of the American athletic dream dug in and hurled the banker's son into collegiate, international, and eventually professional stardom. Bill Bradley knew where he was, and his stature was reaffirmed by approving nods from righteous heads across the country...