Word: indus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That would benefit the U.S. steel indus try and the economy of several ports. But environmentalists fear that disruption of the lakes' whiter ice cover would cause damage to fish and plant life. The energy crisis has made state governments less resistant to suggestions that gas and oil explorations- with their potential for pollution- be undertaken in the Great Lakes basin. (Canada already takes natural gas from Lake Erie.) These problems are not insoluble, but they will require a subtlety of technology and policy quite different from the massive input of dollars that cured many of the lakes...
...Arabian desert to conquer and create an empire whose glories were to shine for a thousand years. A cavalry of God, they conquered the Persian Empire and much of the Byzantine, spreading the faith through Northern Africa into Spain, and through the Middle East to the Indus River. From there, devout Arab traders later carried their faith to Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. Other traders introduced the Koran to black tribes of Africa that lived south of the Sahara Desert...
...given his head ("Robert's always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset Strip billboards, which are for the music indus try what heraldry was to Camelot. He also brainstorms with the talent, helping art ists choose material. Singer Yvonne Elliman calls him "the man with the golden ears -the best in the business at picking singles." Coury says, "I don't tell big artists like the Bee Gees or Eric Clapton...
Maling Soong Foundation Lecture: Sheila Winer, Professor of Art, University of Massachusetts on "The Art of the Indus Civilization, Turkmenistan, and Mesopotamia." Open to all. Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library...
...professor of art and an expert on the ancient uses of clay, bases her theory on studies started in 1969. For decades archaeologists had been puzzled by the great numbers of small, geometric clay tokens-some as old as 10,000 years-discovered in digs from Egypt to the Indus Valley. Several experts had speculated that these tokens were toys or pieces from a still undiscovered prehistoric game. In 1966 Pierre Amiet, curator of Near Eastern art at the Louvre, suggested that the tokens were an ancient recording system. Schmandt-Besserat agrees. After comparing the tokens with samples of early...