Word: darknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bridge, illuminated by dark red night lights that do not impair vision, the watch is nursing the Blough and her followers down-channel. The Mac leads, softening the brash in the channel and "leaning on the corners," as Gordon Hall puts it. The channels are desperately tight. Ore carriers must have room to pivot around the turns without their bows or sterns straying from the deep water. There is much moving back and forth by the Mac in an effort to flush the ice from the shipping lane, and she shakes like a wet puppy. The "Mackinaw Dance," the crew...
...dark-suited industrialists who stood with bowed heads, the unusual invocation by Detroit City Councilman David Eberhard was as right and natural as the Pledge of Allegiance. The prayer opened the weekly luncheon of the Economic Club of Detroit, the automobile capital of the world, and never before have the men who put the U.S. on wheels had more reason to seek divine intervention. Over the next half dozen years, the edgy managers of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors will need all the help they...
...fresh and crispy. For $3-$4 you can eat Shrimp Louis, plump white shrimps on a bed of lettuce and eggs with dressing, or order a platter of fresh Crab Claws Matignon, very sweet and tender. And a real plus--Cafe Florian's lettuce isn't wilty or dark, and it's surprisingly fresh...
Birdy and Al are boyhood chums. They fall out of the nest at the same time, both managing to land on their feet in a poor neighborhood outside Philadelphia. Al is a Sicilian tough guy, dark and intent on making himself a strongman. He excells as an athlete, making it with the cheerleaders, before getting his face and gut shattered by artillery in World...
PRESIDENT BOK WOULD have us believe that human civilization is still in the Dark Ages. The portrait of Harvard he paints in Friday's open letter on "the ethical responsibilities of the university in society" is a dismal flash-back to medieval times, when colleges were walled fortresses, isolated from society. Bok would have us spring to the battlements, caldrons of boiling oil at the ready, whenever society's political turmoil and moral conflicts approach the gates...