Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand, swaying history of the great North Atlantic steamships: can the $15 hardback leviathan survive in an age that buys its books from newsstands, reads them in an hour, and discards them like banana peels? The Sway of the Grand Saloon is huge, solid, stately, absurdly lavish, its noble dust jacket encrusted with gilt. Its whorled endpapers are the work of Niebelungian trolls who never see the sun. Its paper, far from being recycled, might be made by the supplier of Cunard table linen...
...side pulls up behind a supermarket. The figure who hauls himself from the cab looks like the local citizen most in need of relief. Ferree, 77, a stooped 6 ft. 6 in., has bowed legs, deteriorating teeth and a face that looks like an old rock weathered by dust storms. Indeed, he is the scavenger he appears; for 25 years he has scuttled through the alleys of Harlingen, scrounging loaves of day-old bread, wilting fruit and vegetables, soup bones, used soap from motels. Always, in return, he spends a few minutes picking up trash or sweeping...
...young and old-including two blind victims of cataracts and two badly burned children-to successful hospital treatment. In his ramshackle hovel at the edge of Harlingen, the old man has even delivered two babies. Says one of Ferree's occasional volunteer assistants: "We had to blow the dust off the children to see if they were boys or girls...
...rutted mountains of the eastern Tennessee coal country are scarcely hospitable to doers of good works. Strip mining has raped the Appalachian countryside of its fertility and robbed its people of spirit. They shuffle grimly about, gray as the coal dust that settles over their desolate towns, hostile toward all outsiders, wary even of each other. There is no Hatfield-McCoy romance to their bitter internecine feuds. Sometimes the young are lured away by gaudy tales of life in Cincinnati and Atlanta and Chicago, but they usually return home after the first paycheck to "lay out" under the moon...
Nonetheless, Mariner 9 has already added important new findings to man's knowledge of Mars. Near the south pole, one of the few areas where Mariner's cameras have been able to peer through the huge dust storm that still obscures much of the planet, the surface is also remarkably smooth, leading some scientists to theorize that the region was scoured clean by glaciers as the polar cap grew during Martian winters and then receded again. If glaciers were indeed responsible, their presence would indicate that there is more water in the polar cap (which is composed largely of frozen...