Word: marination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brother had died in a wild shootout while trying to kidnap hostages from the Marin County courthouse, presumably in order to bargain for Jackson's free dom. Davis had been circumstantially tied to the episode...
...Charlotte's accomplishments is the ability to perform emergency tracheotomies. She can also catch chickens and snap their necks with one smooth motion. Warren is a monstrous lout and a failure whose "face had been coarsened by contempt," whose "mind had been coarsened by self-pity." Their daughter Marin ("good strong hair and an I.Q. of about 103") grows up to be a skyjacker and a fugitive Marxist. Her resemblance to Patty Hearst can hardly be coincidental. Charlotte's second husband is also a familiar type out of the recent past-a successful San Francisco lawyer who travels...
Charlotte travels to escape unpleasantnesses like Warren-and the FBI, which keeps pestering her about Marin's whereabouts. In Boca Grande she spends a good deal of time at the airport and the hotel pool. She involves herself in some social work, has an affair and attempts to introduce lively cocktail society into the torpid tropics. In the end. Charlotte fails to heed the unmistakable signs and explicit warnings that precede one of Boca Grande's periodic coups, and is shot by one side or the other...
Beyond such techniques to reduce the dire consequences of future droughts, University of Nebraska Political Scientist Robert Miewald asked more fundamental questions about the way the nation uses its land. "What really is the problem in Marin County?" he asked his scientific colleagues. "Is it too little water? Or is it too many people? Has the area been developed beyond the capability of its resources to support people?" He suggested that perhaps people should live where water is available rather than haul water to where they want to live...
Last week there were sure signs that the residents of Marin County were adjusting to the dry life. They cut their daily consumption of water from 15.6 million gallons a week to 10.4 million, well under the goal of 12 million set by water officials. Declared Dietrich Stroeh, manager of the Marin municipal water district: "The response is simply amazing. The more we save now, the more we bank for summer...