Word: dak
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rural towns are suddenly booming. In Devils Lake, N. Dak., sales have doubled at Bill Bergstrom's Lake Chevrolet, the Western State Bank has a record $8,000,000 in deposits, and the local John Deere dealer cannot keep up with new orders. Perhaps the busiest man in town is Accountant Curtis Brekke, who does the federal tax returns of about 1,000 wheat farmers. This year his clients are obsessed with finding ways to spread out their ample earnings for tax purposes. "For all the years they never had the big money, they didn't pay much...
...reducing news, editorial and ad space and skimping on newsstand copies. Weeklies and smaller dailies that have no private mills, no huge standing orders with suppliers and no capacity to stockpile large quantities of newsprint were taking even more drastic steps. Some-like the Rapid City (S. Dak.) Journal-have already stopped publishing Saturday editions to conserve dwindling paper supplies...
marshals who previously served at Wounded Knee, S. Dak., plus three police tracking dogs from Puerto Rico. In an unusual move, Evans warned tourists against walking on the streets at night and said that he was considering declaring martial law. Still, even many whites recognized that, as the Daily News of nearby St. Thomas editorialized: "All the police in the world will be of little use until the unpleasant truths of racial animosity are accepted and steps taken ... to correct them...
Most of the underground activity in Lead, S. Dak., site of the famous Homestake mine, consists of digging for gold. But in recent years, a group of scientists have also been working a mile beneath the surface at Lead to capture elusive emanations from the sun called neutrinos. Traveling at the speed of light and thought to be capable of passing through trillions of miles of solid lead, the ghostlike neutrinos have no mass or electrical charge. They are produced during violent atomic collisions at the core of the sun, and thus are believed to be a vital index...
Died. Francis William Leahy, 64, football coach at Notre Dame who stepped into Knute Rockne's shoes but did not quite fill them; of congestive heart failure following a long illness; in Portland, Ore. Raised in the prophetically named town of Winner, S. Dak., Leahy attended Notre Dame where he played on the undefeated 1929 national championship team. After various coaching jobs-including six years at Fordham, where he taught future Green Bay Packers Coach Vince Lombardi-Leahy returned to Notre Dame in 1941 and led the Irish to their first undefeated season since Rockne's days. Known...