Word: everly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cool, clear night last November a gleaming Atlas-Centaur rocket sat ready on its floodlit launch pad at Cape Kennedy. Perched atop the silver booster, the High Energy Astronomical Observatory-2 (HEAO-2), the most ambitious and advanced astrophysics research probe ever, lay shrouded in protective covering...
...mile-and-a-half from the plant, which the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) hopes to open in 1984, an estimated 15,000 foes of nuclear power peacefully gathered on a strip of beach to hear speakers and singers. It was the largest political demonstration ever in Long Island's Suffolk County...
Community residents were conspicuously absent. "Doing community outreach is a slow process. This is our first rally ever in Cambridge, and we'll be back for more," Matthews promised...
...drew cartoons with religious messages and once sent his mother a picture of a red, white and blue electric chair captioned, "Spirit of '76." He wrote letters for illiterate inmates and designed stationery for others, decorating the letterheads with hands clasped in prayer. "If I ever get out of here," he said at one point, "I'll do God's work." He occupied much of each day answering his mail, inscribing envelopes with the message: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT MEANS THOSE WITHOUT CAPITAL GET THE PUNISHMENT. Twice a week he was visited by a girlfriend, divorcee Carla...
...ended the Trudeau era is Joe Clark, the little-known leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. At 39, Clark will become Canada's youngest Prime Minister ever and its first Tory leader since John Diefenbaker was defeated by Lester Pearson in 1963. Clark faces the most difficult challenge that has confronted Canada in the 112 years since confederation: reconciling a nation that has never quite come to grips with its divided past...