Word: happening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coastal residents of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, the 30-ft. waves created by a giant underwater earthquake seemed like the wrath of heaven itself. "God in all his glory did not let this happen without reason," said one Mindanao official in an emotional appeal to the stricken population of Cotabato City (pop. 80,000), 500 miles south of Manila, to cooperate in rescue work. Observed a health officer: "We suffered the brunt of the Moslem insurgency in 1973, and we had the drought in 1972. Now this. Some of the people are saying the fates are angry...
...civil guard, a voluntary army of 110,000 citizens. Last year terrorists plotted 150 attacks in Israel; the police stopped more than 50% before they started and collared most of the other guerrillas soon after they struck. Rosolio considers that record inadequate. Says he: "Wanton murder should not happen. We should get there before the bomb goes off." Police urge citizens to "please bother us" if they notice anything irregular. Market owners and bus drivers are urged to keep an eye peeled for abandoned baskets and packages...
Then when disaster strikes, we say, "Why did this happen...
...week long Reagan and his bombshell choice for Vice President, Pennsylvania's liberal Senator Richard Schweiker, worked valiantly to make "something happen." Convinced that Ford had been moving toward a narrow, but near certain first-ballot victory, Reagan and Campaign Manager John Sears (see box) had resorted to a desperate gamble. The Schweiker selection, they had hoped, would throw the race into confusion, check the Ford buildup, and give Reagan a chance to break through in the only area where enough wavering Ford supporters and uncommitted delegates seemed ripe for plucking: the large Northeast delegations of New York...
...happen to trip out to Central Square meanwhile, check out Survive, for some gut-dropping suspense; or to Boston, see Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, for more artsy poignancy. Then there's the Russian scifi film Solaris. A friend told me this movie has "a lot of connotations; I didn't even like it until afterwards, when I spent all night with friends making all the connections." One of those. I guess I'll have to go investigate those connotations for myself and get back...