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...pool and compared it to the room I sat in, scented with burning wood and plump pork chops, sizzling in the old-fashioned black oven. The small wooden farm house had neither electricity nor running water. One room served as the living room, dining room, kitchen and pantry. A ladder in the corner led to the unfinished loft where Harriet and the man she now lives with, an East Coast social worker turned hog farmer, sleep. Their three children have their own miniature house some 30 feet away. After dinner, we talked for several hours, attempting to sort...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: A California Eden | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...waters about 130 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. Commander Alan B. Smith suspected that the Russian ship had been violating the U.S.'s new 200-mile fishing zone. Three Coast Guardsmen and two agents of the National Marine Fisheries Service scampered up the trawler's rope ladder and split into two teams. One hurried below to check the ship's cleaning and packing facilities and its refrigerated hold; the other team headed for the skipper's cabin to inspect the ship's log. The record of the trawler's fishing activities disclosed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A little Stink About a Lot of Fish | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...Crimson linksters parlayed strong rounds from the bottom players on their ladder to swamp MIT and Bates yesterday in a rare match play format at the Brae Burn Country Club in West Newton...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Slice MIT, Bates at Brae Burn | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

...fifth player in the women's ladder, Eve Caligor, easily cut down Bowdoin's Martha Sullivan, 15-4, 15-10, 15-10. Caligor, a junior, had performed at number four all season until freshman Margot McGlade defeated her this past week in an intra-squad challenge match. Caligor and McGlade will play another intra-squad match this week to decide who will be the fourth Harvard representative at the three-day even in Philadelphia...

Author: By Peter Mcloughlin, | Title: 'Cliffe Squash Trounces Bowdoin, 7-0 | 2/24/1977 | See Source »

...miles) of gravel road so that it could withstand the shuttle's 68,000-kilogram (150,000-lb.) weight. They also constructed a special trailer to carry the craft, a 90-wheel affair designed to be steered both from the front and the rear like a hook-and-ladder truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prairie Schooner for Space | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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