Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living room couch at about 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970 to find his home invaded. Three young men and a woman holding a lighted candle chanted, "Acid is groovy! Kill the pigs!" The intruders beat and stabbed him, he said, and when he came to hours later he found the slaughtered bodies of his pregnant wife Colette, 26, and daughters Kimberly, 5, and Kristen...
...argument with Colette and beaten and stabbed her and Kimberly. Then he cold-bloodedly stabbed Kristen in her bed. To hide his crimes, the prosecution charged, MacDonald wrote "Pig" in Colette's blood on the headboard of a bed and then stabbed himself. Last week the jury found MacDonald guilty of second-degree murder in the slayings of Colette and Kimberly, and of first-degree murder in the killing of Kristen. Judge Franklin T. DuPree Jr. sentenced Mac-Donald, now 35 and an emergency-room surgeon in Long Beach, Calif, to life imprisonment...
...just sits in his office and thinks three or five years down the road." In the 1950s Ludwig began pondering the world's increasing use, and dwindling supply, of pulp and timber. After surveying sites in Venezuela and elsewhere he settled on Brazil, in part because he found an immense tract for the right price. He bought the land in 1967 for less than $1 an acre...
...planned eventually to turn out 750 metric tons daily, making it moderately large by world standards. If the project is to be fully successful, Ludwig needs to install another plant, which might process pulp into newsprint. Luckily, large deposits of kaolin, a white mineral used in papermaking, have been found on the Jari property...
Diaghilev was more than a gilded talent scout. Wherever he found genius, he made it fashionable. Parisians flocked to see Parade, which coincided with the flowering of cubism. Romeo and Juliet, designed by Miro and Max Ernst, popularized surrealism. Apollon Musagete, the first successful collaboration of Stravinsky and Balanchine, marked the beginning of neoclassicism in music and dance. Diaghilev's own life was measured out in hotel bills and telegrams. He ranged ceaselessly from Europe to America in search of backers and triumphs. World War I and the Russian Revolution slowed his progress but never stopped...