Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which is an accurate enough synopsis of Evening. The setting is Inishnamona, a peninsula that becomes an island when its residents blow up the causeway to the mainland in a short sighted gesture of independence that ends by cutting off the vital tourist trade...
Other experiments concerned with X rays from the sun and their relation to its magnetic field were frankly trial runs for the big-time eclipse due June 30, 1973. That one will not be visible from mainland North America, and the best views, with a generous seven-minute totality, will be against the usually cloudless deep blue skies over North Africa. "Next year, the Sahara!" was the cry of astronomers who looked down their noses rather than up at the sun last week...
First Agnes crashed through Florida and Cuba and seemed about to peter out as it moved inland. But then it turned out to sea off Virginia, recharged its depleted energies and slammed back onto the northeast mainland, already saturated by a week of nearly incessant rains. By the weekend, at least 96 people were dead and more than 120,000 had been evacuated. Five states-Florida, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia-had been declared disaster areas, and damage estimates ran into the billions. Robert M. White, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, pronounced the flooding produced...
...kind of mental illness found in China and the apparent success of Chinese treatment methods. That is the conclusion of Physician Victor Sidel, chief of the department of social medicine at New York's Montefiore Hospital, and his wife Ruth, a psychiatric social worker, who toured hospitals in mainland China for a month last fall. Writing in a recent issue of Social Policy, the Sidels describe the Chinese approach as a blend of both old and new. "The watchword of the entire enterprise," they say, is Mao's exhortation, "Let us heal the wounded and rescue the dead...
...include Guenrikh Borovik, 43, former U.S. correspondent for the Soviet news agency Novosti and writer for Izvestia and Pravda. He will team with Jack Chen, 63, a Eurasian who travels on a Trinidad passport and wrote for Peking Review and People's Daily while living in mainland China from 1950 until last year. To round out this summer's roster, Esquire will have the services of Novelist William Styron...