Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women might never have known Katsura Squadron's odd fate had not Mrs. Atsuko Hori, now the wife of an Ozuki businessman, tracked down the pilots and invited them to a reunion. To Kenji Katayama, a mild-mannered Kyoto agricultural official at 43, the invitation brought a "burning nostalgia for those days when I was so pure that I thought nothing of dying for the glory of my nation. All at once I was full of desire for a rendezvous with my past...
...merged World Journal Tribune Inc., an estimated three-quarters of the Trib's key staffers have drifted away to other jobs; the rest have now been quietly advised to start looking elsewhere. At week's end, W.J.T.. President Matt Meyer said that the Trib's fate will be decided within a few days. This week the newspaper strike will become the longest in New York history, and killing the Trib can only make it longer, since all ten unions (nine of which have settled) will have to renegotiate their contracts...
...Madman in the Tower" explores the forces at work in the life of the killer, pieces together the significant details of his hours leading up to the rampage, reconstructs the multiple crime, and notes the strange role of capricious fate in placing victims within range...
...burning and rasping through the flesh and bone of those on the campus below, then of those who walked or stood or rode as far as three blocks away. Somewhat like the travelers in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were drawn by an inexorable fate to their crucial place in time and space, his victims fell as they went about their various tasks and pleasures. By lingering perhaps a moment too long in a classroom or leaving a moment too soon for lunch, they had unwittingly placed themselves within Whitman's lethal reach. Before...
...wonder, for among other conspicuous firsts, Americans are without equal as nature's vandals-by-indifference. At Lake Tahoe, the story is hearteningly the reverse. For nearly a decade, local, state and federal agencies have fought valiantly and, it now seems, successfully, to save Tahoe from the fate that has necessitated a long-range antipollution cleanup program for Lake Erie. What has been achieved at Tahoe is the arresting of the life cycle of the lake so that its crystalline waters may retain the remarkable purity that still ranks them far above the federally required drinking standards...