Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take one step too many off the beaten path. From that point on, they are more truly on their own than they ever dreamed possible. Sometimes their fate is terrible. In A Distant Episode, a linguistics professor studying North African dialects stumbles foolishly into the hands of a gang of marauding nomads; they cut out his tongue and then teach him clownish tricks to perform at their revels. Other interlopers get gentler treatment. In Pastor Dowe at Tacaté, an ineffectual missionary is driven away from an Indian village by an act of generosity; local custom obliges him to accept...
...Evan Thomas, who wrote this week's cover story and helped report last year's on lawyers, had his first, rather bizarre encounter with a judge in 1975. As a reporter for the Bergen County, N.J., Record, he was interviewing a group of teen-agers after a gang fight in Little Ferry, N.J., when he was arrested on the highly original charge of "inciting to loiter...
...Dade Tax Revolt Committee in Miami last fall and set out to halve the county property tax rate, to $4 per $1,000 of assessed value. He gathered 15,000 signatures to put the proposition on the ballot next month. But the best laid schemes of tax revolutionaries gang aft agley. Because of a whopper of an error, Wilson's petition stated the proposed new rate as 4 mills per $1,000, meaning, for example, that the tax on a $100,000 house would be only 40?, rather than the $400 that he intended...
...P.L.O. is also disturbed by the degree to which Arab allies like Syria and Iraq have been preoccupied with their own problems. Moreover, Arafat is thought to have been persuaded that continued Palestinian violence only reinforces Israeli Premier Menachem Begin's contention that the P.L.O. is just a gang of "terrorists" that "no decent government" should talk...
Linda runs the danger of being typecast forever as a tough runt, which is exactly what she plays in her latest film, The Wanderers, a campy teen-age gang movie in which her boyfriend is a shaven-headed, 6-ft. 6-in., 425-lb. tough named Terror. One scene required her to climb a high fence, and she notes, with satisfaction, that she rejected the director's offer of a double. She has a daredevil's face, marked by a scar that runs from the bridge of her once broken nose, across her right eyelid and down nearly...