Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue pushed by public pressure to one backed by legal maneuvering is discouraging. Of course the controversy has had its good moments: for one, the Disney Corporation has learned its lesson, is letting the Forest Service handle the project, and is concentrating on its plans for a resort near Lake Tahoe with the advice of the Sierra Club...
BIRTH DEFECTS. The Ohio department of health has found that women in three communities with PVC plants-Painesville, Ashtabula and Avon Lake-bore more children with birth defects and other malformations than women in other communities in the state; laboratory research has shown that vinyl chloride can cause chromosomal damage in humans. Anesthetic gases also appear to be teratogenic, or capable of causing birth defects. Russian, Danish and U.S. studies all show a high miscarriage rate among women anesthesiologists and operating-room nurses...
From its Mediterranean terminus at Pelusium, the so-called Eastern Canal probably headed south for ten miles, veered across what is now the Suez Canal near the town of Qantara, and approached Lake Timsah near Ismailia, where old canal remnants have previously been found. Though wind, sand and irrigation works have wiped out much of the canal's course, Geologists Amihai Sneh, Tuvia Weissbrod and Itamar Perath hint at an intriguing possibility: the waterway may have split in two, one branch following a great east-west depression called Wadi Tumilat to link with the Nile, the other continuing south...
...REAL STORY about Hoffa only comes through between-the-lines, his book is as extreme a self-justification as a public figure could consciously write. Unconsciously, he reveals his sense of majesty: when Hoffa tells of playing with the grandchildren at his Lake Orion, Michigan, summer home, it reminds you of Don Corleone. For Hoffa, wealth and loyalty to family and union are living denials that he has never broken the respectable union boss's code of conduct. But while Leonard Woodcock may have a summer home just like Jimmy's, he is no rebel and will hardly meet...
...Bunny Lake is Missing. An absolutely dreadful film...