Word: green
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within minutes, the western sky has turned a stunning emerald green, and huge hailstones are smashing on the truck's roof. It is 6:16 p.m. Moore pushes east as the hailstones, some of them literally the size of golf balls, threaten to crack our windshield. After plowing through a curtain of hail and rain, the truck turns south and breaks through the devastating storm. As it rolls through tiny Covington (pop. 605), every light in town blinks off and on, twice, because of storm-blown power lines. "Look for an escape route," Moore warns Moyer...
...green tide of Watergate-writing cash keeps rolling on. John Dean's Blind Ambition crests in a four-part TV spectacular. Judge John Sirica's refreshingly unjuridical To Set the Record Straight surges onto the bestseller lists. Now comes John Ehrlichman's second novel, The Whole Truth, a racy Washington scandal spin-off aimed at reeling in a movie or TV contract, as did his first, The Company. More modestly, Leon Jaworski offers a spare memoir, Confession and Avoidance, his second Watergate book, which seems pitched in too low a key to unlock any box-office riches...
DIED. Kurt Jooss, 78, German choreographer renowned for highly dramatic, topical ballets, of which the most acclaimed was his 1932 pacifist masterpiece, The Green Table; of injuries suffered in a car accident; in Heilbronn, West Germany...
DIED. Colonel Arthur ("the Bull") Simons, 60, legendary veteran of World War II and the Viet Nam War, who was once described by an admiring John Wayne as someone who plays in "real life the role I play in the movies"; of a heart attack; in Dallas. Green Beret Commander Simons won the Distinguished Service Cross in 1970 after flawlessly leading a helicopter raid on a heavily guarded P.O.W. camp near Hanoi only to discover to his chagrin that there were no Americans there to be rescued. Last February the retired colonel led a more fruitful rescue mission on behalf...
There have been counterstrains. The transition now to a far more prudent and intelligent energy policy demands reactivation of what M. Carl Holman, president of the National Urban Coalition, calls "a sense of The Green." The earliest towns and villages in the U.S., Holman notes, "usually set aside some land at the center that was held in common, called The Green. But to day, people have difficulty feeling that they have things in common: that there are group interests that override individual needs...