Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actual suspect, police usually scour the area for other offenders, or enlist police trainees or even idlers to help out-sometimes for a token payment. In this case, authorities were looking for two gunmen who had robbed Racine's Union Savings & Loan Assn. of $4,782 on Dec. 30. They had managed to arrest a single suspect, Robert Brantley. Officers hoped that two female tellers would pick Brantley from among six young blacks in the lineup. To the authorities' astonishment, both tellers identified not Brantley but Walls. Said Cauthen: "I was shocked...
...Mayflower's destination was Virginia; instead, the boat pulled up at Plymouth, Mass. A passenger's journal for Dec. 19, 1620, explains: "We could not now take time for further search or consideration; our victuals being much spent, especially our beer ..." On July 4, Americans will continue that tradition: when the brew runs out, the revels will be ended...
...North Slope's vast natural gas reserves. One line would parallel the oil pipe; the other two would swing across Canada into the U.S. The Canadian government is expected to decide in August whether to approve one, or neither, of these routes, and the Carter Administration has until Dec. 1 to choose one of the three. Each carries a price tag of $8 billion to $ 11 billion, but nobody doubts that by the time the job is finished-probably before 1985-it will comfortably exceed the big oil line as the costliest private building project in history...
...once sharp staff. One example: Press Aide Bernard Aronson was fired for "insubordination"; Aronson is now Vice President Walter Mondale's chief speechwriter. Miller apparently won reelection because he wangled a national contract in 1974 giving miners a 54% raise over three years. When that contract expires Dec. 6, many miners hope he will score as well or even better...
There may be, as the Book of Ecclesiastes says, "no new thing under the Sun," but there is definitely something new way out beyond it. Astronomers know that stars, and possibly entire solar systems, are constantly being born in the womblike gas clouds of interstellar space (TIME cover, Dec. 27). Now, they may have a chance to observe a delivery. Scientists from the University of Arizona and NASA'S Ames Research Center at Mountain View, Calif., announced last week that they have identified a discshaped object in the constellation Cygnus that is not only an evolving star, but could...