Word: easton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NORTH EASTON--There was no madness to their method. In fact, there was nothing dramatic, exciting or even half-interesting about the way the women of Stonehill College defeated the Harvard softball team yesterday 5-0, at North Eastern...
...California, eight dams in the San Gabriel Mountains were found to be vulnerable to earthquake tremors if their reservoirs were filled. To avoid that danger, water levels are kept low, even after rainstorms, when dam gates are opened. "We lose a lot of water to the ocean," says Jim Easton, an engineer in the district. In the low-lying Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a 1,000-mile system of dikes, made of sand and peat, has been sinking as the peat oxidizes. Six levees have collapsed since 1980, inundating some of the delta islands. The local water districts cannot afford...
After an astonishing 4-0 start, Penn suffered its first loss of the seasons Saturday afternoon, falling to Lafayette, 35-20, in Easton...
BORN. To Larry Holmes, 32, world heavyweight boxing champion who calls himself "the world's baddest heavyweight," and Diane Holmes, 28: their fifth child, first son; in Easton, Pa. Name: Larry Jr. Weight...
DIED. Duncan Norton-Taylor, 78, longtime writer and editor at TIME and managing editor of FORTUNE from 1959 to 1965; of a stroke; in Easton, Md. A World War II correspondent and sometime author of fiction, he viewed the editor's role as one of "pushing, tugging, urging, restraining" and never got over the "suspicion that writing is more...