Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main focus of the vacation onslaught has been that 160-mile strip of overbuilt beach front in the south of France, the Côte d'Azur. Local rail terminals are overflowing as additional sun worshipers pour into Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime, Cannes, Nice and Menton. When they arrive, along with myriad motorists who are clogging France's autoroute du soleil, a rude shock is waiting: no accommodations are available. As many as 1,000 people a day are redirected by the local tourist office to the Maritime Alps, inland and anywhere from 50 to 100 miles...
...witnesses related details of a 1962 CIA poisoning scheme (during a time, admittedly, when the agency was indeed plotting to assassinate Castro), and of anti-Castro execution plots fomented as recently as 1976 in Mexico City. (The CIA calls the allegations of a Mexico City plot "absolutely untrue.") The main impact of these exposes on spectators was widespread narcolepsy; they were occasionally awakened by brisk applause from the army of Communist and Third World reporters covering the pseudo event...
...main lesson of Seveso is that by their very freakishness, modern technological accidents raise clouds of mystery and uncertainty that last long after the initial misery. As Basilico says, weighing the future of his town and the future health of his son: "Even the professors don't know. They forecast. They warn. They show concern. But they don't know...
Stoltzman, in fact, came to the classical clarinet by the unorthodox route of jazz. During his childhood in San Francisco, he and his father, a railroad man with a passion for the tenor sax, would im- provise hymns at Presbyterian Sunday school. "We'd play the main-line melody and then just float in and out of harmonies," he recalls. "That freedom not to play all the notes exactly as they were written was the beginning to me of making music...
Wheeling into Eagle Grove (pop. 4,489) at 9:30 a.m., dozens of thirsty bikers preempted the Alibi Lounge, chugalugging beers and cheering with every glass as if it were the last St. Patrick's Day, later forming a conga line on Main Street. At midmorning, in Washta (pop. 319), Joyce Johnson and friends from the United Methodist Church sold 600 Ibs. of hamburger and 400 Ibs. of hot dogs, 1,500 pieces of fruit, 7,000 candy bars and close to 280 cases of soda (no beer); the women figured on a $2,000 profit for the church...