Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where the frontier spirit lingers and distance, paradoxically, draws people together. Whatever the reason, something remarkable has taken place in Rapid City, S. Dak., since the Black Hills town of 44,000 was devastated by flash floods. In the disaster caused by torrential rains and the collapse of Canyon Lake Dam, more than 200 died, another 500 remained missing and some 1,000 houses were destroyed. The damage passed $ 100 million...
...board Global Flight 502, non stop from Salt Lake City to Minneapolis, are an ulcerous businessman (Ross Elliott) and his steadfast wife (Jeanne Grain); a jolly jazz musician (Roosevelt Grier); a United States Senator (Wal ter Pidgeon) and his son (Nicholas Hammond); a teeny-bopper (Susan Dey); a young wife on the verge of giving birth (Mariette Hartley); the head stewardess (Yvette Mimieux), once in love with the captain (Charlton Heston), now carrying on with the copilot (Mike Henry); and a certain Sergeant Jerome K. Weber (James Brolin), a bug-eyed benny popper who swills brandy, talks crazy and keeps...
...northern shores of Lake Tanganyika, in the tiny Central African republic of Burundi, hundreds of bodies lie in tangled clusters, rotting in the sun. To the south and west, the rolling countryside is half-blackened by fire. In one mountain village, Rotoru, only five people are still alive; an army patrol shot down the women and children and pushed the men over a cliff. In the northern part of the country, a white schoolteacher remarks that he is reluctant to turn his back on his classes to write on the blackboard "because I'm afraid that somebody will...
Memorial Day. Bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Connecticut Turnpike. California families flocking to Lake Tahoe. S.M.U. and Texas University graduates pouring across the causeways into Galveston. Memorial Day: a three-day nationwide hootenanny that seems to have lost much of its original purpose...
Nixon walked the Kremlin grounds in the first mists of morning, laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, talked hunting with Brezhnev and fishing with Kosygin. He rode a hydrofoil on the Moscow River, saw the Bolshoi dance Swan Lake and told those around him that when he gets back to Washington, "I will close my eyes and see it all again...