Word: inge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruinous to the land is strip min ing for coal, Kentucky's most profit able product, that huge swaths of the Bluegrass State might be mistaken for the moon. Both boon and bane, strip mining gouges out a third of Ken tucky's coal production, which last year reached 93 million tons worth some $500 million. The strip miners use bull dozers to flay great strips off the sur face and get at the veins beneath. This scars Appalachia's hills and flatlands with ugly detritus called overburden or spoil. As the spoil shifts and slides...
...movement. It was a dog that had been feeding on his son's body. Soon, two other dogs appeared, and Goodman found himself fighting for his life. Hoisting Gene's body over his shoulder, and using his free hand to throw rocks and branches at the attack ing animals, Goodman ran as fast as he could. As he neared his home, the dogs finally gave up the chase. Goodman was so overwrought and exhausted that he passed out. Later, a posse of about 50 neighbors and lawmen found the other boy. He had been dragged to an area...
...longer flights. But for Air Force Major Michael J. Adams, 37, riding the stub-winged X-15 rocket ship on its wild ten-minute flights beyond the atmosphere and back presented a greater challenge. He too had been chosen as an astronaut. Repeated slippage of the Manned Orbit ing Laboratory program left him impatient to get off the ground, and he asked to fly the X15 instead...
This year Highland Park has a new star: a straw-haired 16-year-old who is practically a one-man ball club. Play ing quarterback on offense, he has completed 56% of his passes; on the ground, he has gained 705 yds. in 102 carries. He is his team's top scorer, with 83 points. On defense, he plays safety, has intercepted nine passes. He also punts (for an average of 33 yds.), kicks off, boots extra points and field goals. His performance against Turner High three weeks ago was typical. With Highland Park trailing...
Morison winds up rather too stoutly defending the man he cannot quite love -or quite bring to life. To this extent, the biography is a failure, but a failure that scatters in its wake some fascinat ing little gems from Morison's booty chest of Americana. Where else would the recipe for Rhode Island jonny cake appear in a footnote...