Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE statistics have been recorded and the books shut on the devastation caused by tropical storm Agnes two months ago: 118 dead, 116,000 dwellings damaged or destroyed, more than $3 billion worth of property damaged, 206 counties and 27 cities turned into official disaster areas. But the private suffering...
For some, adversity has proved the mother of equality. One gaily forlorn crack: "Glad I knew you when you had money." Recalls George Spohrer, a leading lawyer in Wilkes-Barre: "It was back in the days when we were wading knee-deep in mud. Everyone looked as bad as the...
Died. Admiral Harold R. ("Betty") Stark, 91, ranking U.S. naval officer at the time of Pearl Harbor; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Stark was appointed Chief of Naval Operations in 1939 by President Roosevelt, but after Japan's 1941 surprise attack, he was relieved of his post...
On the war itself von Stade comes out sounding closer to President Nixon than to Democratic nominee George McGovern. "My own feelings, at least now, are that it is a disaster that we ever got into the war," he says. "But my feelings even today are how do you get...
Cyrus Harvey, owner of the Harvard Square Theater and a leading force behind a local group called Planning for People, predicts "total disaster" if nearby neighborhoods aren't protected from swarms of visitors and if the business district is not integrated with the Center.