Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, another Catholic church named for St. Joseph learned that one of its parishioners, lately forced into bankruptcy, was about to lose his house. Remembering a device used during the Depression, Father John Carew, 70, announced formation of a Save-a-Home Fund. When he made his appeal, Carew said last week, churchgoers "tore the place down with their clapping." The collection produced $5,000-enough to stave off the foreclosure and to help others that the recession threatens to turn out of house and home...
...with a chemical concocted by RJB Founder Richard J. Briggs that is the key to the whole enterprise: it permits the material to be shipped without the buildup of dangerous methane gas. Barges and trucks bearing the finished product will soon be on their way to the port of Lake Charles, La., and in late January the first shipload will depart for Dubai. On arrival, the manure will be piped inland and sprayed together with grain seed upon barren ground. For six years the grain will be plowed under to build soil that should eventually bear food crops...
Dooley P. Wheeler Jr. Salt Lake City...
...fumes of history filled his brain, not its dry facts." When the fumes wove in harmony with the demands of visual truth, Turner became an epic dramatist-as Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus shows, with that sublime apparition of a galleon, canvas flapping and looping, escorted by Nereids through a lake of fire and vapor, under the dimly discernible, looming profile of the giant...
When filming actually began, the company moved from Lake Tahoe to Santo Domingo, which was to serve as prerevolutionary Cuba. They were rained out for days on end, although Charles Bluhdorn, chairman of the board of Gulf & Western, Paramount's parent company, comforted Coppola when he complained about the weather. Gulf & Western has holdings in Santo...