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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...society's historians insist that Moses himself showed the first dowsing skills when he rapped on that rock in the desert and got water. In 19th century America, "water witches" grew as plentiful as traveling medicine men, ready, for a fee, to point out a potential water hole. As handy as dowsers seem to have been for many a parched landholder, the practice eventually fell victim to the new scientific age. Science abhors a mystery, especially one with a maddeningly practical application. Modern hydrologists and the U.S. Geological Survey long ago rejected talk of water "veins" as nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: Is Dowsing Going to the Dogs? | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Alexander's round started out inauspiciously when he double bogeyed the first hole and then three putted the third through fifth on sluggish greens. After shooting a 40 going out, he careened into the clubhouse with an even par 35 for the back nine by tucking a 155-yd. eight-iron two feet from the pin on number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linksters Miss ECAC Cutoff; Alexander Qualifies with a 75 | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

Perhaps a black hole is nothing else but God himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1978 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...accept a Christ, a Buddha, a Ramana Maharishi as ultimate expressions of evolution, then surely a black hole must be regarded as an ultimate expression of God's involution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1978 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...city is still in the hole by $18 million," Young said. "But by the end of the year there will be no cash deficit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Property Tax Cut | 9/26/1978 | See Source »

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