Word: edens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California's Soledad Prison is a spot of hell in the middle of a Garden of Eden. Located on 960 acres in the verdant Salinas Valley, the penitentiary housing 2,400 inmates is a cauldron of latent racial violence. In its 26-year history, 18 inmates have slaughtered one another in the name of black or white supremacy. Last week, as part of a continual effort to promote racial harmony, prison authorities held a concert by Gospel Singer Andrae Crouch, a black. TIME Correspondent James Wilde attended. His report...
...signs of decay are almost universal. The 1,250-room Fontainebleau Hotel-so haughty in its heyday that Comedian Alan King joshed that it charged him $25 a day, not for accommodation but merely to use its name -was sold early this month in bankruptcy court. Next door, the Eden Roc has just emerged from years in receivership. Once it featured entertainers like Harry Belafonte and Wayne Newton; this winter its "headliners" will be its own singing waiters. At least three other hotels are tangled in bankruptcy proceedings; vacant stores dot the island, and even the members of the world...
...Dragons of Eden, Sagan...
...Dragons of Eden, Sagan...
...balsa raft. To demonstrate that Egyptians might have reached the New World centuries before Columbus, he conquered the Atlantic in a boat made of papyrus. Now Heyerdahl is about to take a reed boat down the Tigris River from the purported site of the biblical Garden of Eden, eventually reach the open sea and either sail to India or East Africa, or sink-whichever comes first. His goal: to prove that the Sumerians-who established the earliest known civilization in what is today Iraq-could have used the route for trade and to spread their civilization as far away...