Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Amando Munoz, 28, a wiry migrant worker from Texas, was picking tomatoes on a farm near Lake Worth, Fla., when four agents of the U.S. Immigration Service swooped down on the field in a search for illegal immigrants. They asked Munoz for his identity papers, but he had lost his billfold and so he had nothing to show them. "I told them I was from Harlingen, Texas," Munoz recalls, "but they just said, 'Get in the truck...
FRIDAY: Jacques Cousteau. The undersea filmmaker returns to the telly again with a special on the hippopotami of Lake Tanganyika. Rod Serling narrates. CH. 5. 8 p.m. Color...
...Bruce Thomas, 24, took off for Canada in 1969, after his draft board changed his classification to 1-A. He got a job as a recreation director in Slave Lake, Alta., and soon took over as editor of the weekly paper, the Lesser Slave Lake Scope. The paper keeps Thomas, his Alberta-born wife and one employee busy. A self-confessed "disturber of the social scene," he goes after conflicts of interest in the local council and finds frequent opportunity to warn his readers against the "rat race of U.S. life." Amnesty, he says, does not matter to him. "Some...
...year-old graduate student of Indian descent at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, did not share the skepticism. As part of his doctoral work, he decided to study the seismic records of the swarms of microquakes that had occurred during 1971 in the Blue Mountain lake region of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Aggarwal's hunch paid off. Writing in Nature, he and his associates report that they also found large and significant changes in the relative velocity of P and S waves prior to more serious tremors. Furthermore, they note, the duration and intensity...
...there is much in Leo and Theodore that can get the sludge moving down at the "heart-works" (Mr. Newlove's word). There is the thematic opening passage, an evocation of ideal father-and-son solidarity expressed in a brief description of a family sturgeon hunt on Lake Erie. And some 25 years later there is that final highway scene in which the Siamese twins, Leo and Teddy, hoist dripping thumbs in the hope that some sympathetic motorist will help them move bodies and soul out of that upper New York State region where they have overstayed their childhoods...