Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refugees' reception has varied widely. In Indiantown Gap, Pa., the idea of a refugee camp was viewed with hostility by the stolid Pennsylvania Dutch residents of Lebanon County. Within a month of the refugees' arrival, though, local sentiment changed. Volunteers offered clothing and blankets and took Vietnamese children on tours of the countryside. Eventually 420 refugees settled in the area. Less pleasant was the experience of the 42 refugees who went to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to work in a candy factory. Complaining of bad treatment, 15 or so of them left their jobs; their employer claimed that the Vietnamese...
...Crimson five closed the gap and took a 23-22 lead with 30 seconds left in the half with three successive buckets by Cheryl Gelzer. Only a desperation 40-foot shot with three seconds on the clock gave the Bruins a one-point advantage at the half...
Cumberland Gap...
...Crimson made several runs at the Brown margin but this time could not close the gap...
...exactly kiss five hours later, but they did hug each other with evident enough emotion before 10,000 paying customers at The Allman Brothers Band-Jimmy Carter for President concert to leave me wondering what is going on in the New South--specifically, whether the kinds of minor generation-gap-bridging miracles taking place in the plush northwest suburbs of Atlanta are also taking place in Knoxville, Greenville, Pahokee, Biloxi, Bogalusa, Tuscaloosa, Arkadelphia, and Nacogdoches...