Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Padre's assets, the greatest is its beach, wide and powdery, running from the sprouting condominiums to the sea. In Texas, unlike many resort areas, the beaches belong to the people. A person may own land to the water's edge but may not fence offer build on the beach itself. Virtually everybody in South Padre supports that concept. Says Lilljedahl: "Without these fine beaches for people to use, we're nothing but a pile of sand...
Cambridge officials condemned the municipal library building on Huron Ave. March 13 because it was structurally unsafe, the Rev. Bernard Herlihy, pastor of St. Peter's parish which owns the building and the land said yesterday. City manager James L. Sullivan is negotiating with the parish for the purchase of the site so that Cambridge can build a new library building, Herlihy added...
...escape, the desire to do so can be more frustrating than productive. Escape can lead a person either to urban areas of his country or to another country altogether. Galbraith contends that mass exodus from impoverished rural areas benefits the rural residents who remain by giving them more land per capita, aids urban areas by providing industrial labor, and even helps more developed countries by providing migrant workers for jobs too menial for their more affluent citizenry...
Talk about lost weekends. Traveling southwards to the land of low-level radiation, the women's tennis team opened its spring season with a pair of convincing losses...
...nation's military are depleted. From a high of 1.5 million troops in 1973, they have dwindled to a meager 300,000 individuals today. In the event of another massive conventional land war in Europe (in the tradition of WWI and WWII), it is estimated that another 650,000 men would be needed. Yet it would take at least 110 days for the first individual to be drafted, and another 40 days before 100,000 soldiers could be conscripted. This state of affairs would result in dire consequences for our nation's security. Registration in itself does not impose great...