Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...created by the act to manage Alaskan native assets. Under his tenure, NANA has built rural schools, offices, rescue stations and even owns a reindeer herd of 4,200 head to provide meat to northwest natives. Hensley, who speaks English, Russian and Inupiaq (an Eskimo language in western Alaska), lost a bid for his state's sole House seat in 1974, but is often introduced by Alaskans as "our next Senator...
...Israeli government wants the land for one of three new military airfields it plans to build in the Negev to replace bases that will be lost in the course of the phased Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai. Government officials argue that this vital security interest justifies a special law, that the peace treaty timetable requiring final withdrawal by March 1982 allows no time for prolonged appeal proceedings, and that optional land and monetary compensation-ranging from $83 to $250 an acre-will be adequate...
Since that year, when it became the first foreign automaker ever to produce cars in the U.S., Volkswagen has been winning back part of the ground it lost in the mid-1970s to the Japanese trio of Toyota, Datsun and Honda. While Volkswagen's sales rose 13% worldwide dur ing this year's first half, they spurted ahead 41% in the U.S., where the company is now the fourth largest seller of foreign cars, with 3.4% of the market. Volkswagen's goal is a 5% share, and it could easily sell more cars...
...gulping monarchs, came off the line at the company's Wixom, Mich., plant on June 8. Last week the plant turned out its successor, the Mark VI. It is 14 in. shorter, 800 lbs. lighter, gets 14 m.p.g., and is somewhat boxier in shape. Yet all is not lost for big-car lovers. Beside the mite-size models filling the highways today, even the down-sized Mark VI looks gargantuan...
...Shack's proprietor is hefty, fortyish Dana Montana, who at 23 lost her job as a Playboy Bunny because she was considered too old and haggard. For ten years Montana ran the Shack as a desultory go-go spot for males. Then in 1976 she decided to try exotic male dancers, insisting on a "classy, sophisticated, macho" program that would appeal strongly to women but would discourage gay customers. She has succeeded: the current stage show appears to strike the right sensual chords for women of all ages but attracts few male patrons. The revue also hits the right...