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...pennies per ton to the total cost of obtaining coal. But local farmers and ranchers are not convinced, because reclamation is extremely difficult in the semiarid region (average rainfall: 14 in. per year). "If I used as much fertilizer as they did on that test site," says Rancher Wally McRae, "I could grow grass on the roof of my house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Showdown in Montana | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

Cesar, Geronimo hit a Sacrifice fly off reliever Moose sending pinch runner George Foster to third. The count on Hal McRae, pinch hitting for Clay Carroll, went to one and one when Moose fired a wild pitch allowing Foster to race home...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reds Net Pennant; Tigers Tie Series | 10/12/1972 | See Source »

Emotional Secret. Roberta is a balladeer who blends jazz, pop and the blues in a way that recalls Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. She appeals to the Sinatra set as much as the jazz buffs, to the over-40s as much as their rock-bopping offspring. Her secret is that emotionally, she banks her fires. She knows that a low flame burns longer and more intriguingly than a high blaze. Thanks to her training, her voice retains a classical elegance, avoiding the frenzied bleating that characterizes so much pop singing today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lady with a Low Flame | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...much to see from the car window, baking, gleaming out there, that the driving, the perpetual motion, takes over. Get a good cigar, flip on the air conditioner and the FM radio, shut out the world with your windows and zip on down the freeway lulled by Carmen McRae, by the air whistling to get out the window crack, by the distant hum of the tires, zip past the palms and the houses at a standstill in the sun and float on the air on your shocks, free, rootless, just going-like the girl in Joan Didion's Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Where the Auto Reigns Supreme | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...latest songs into his attache case and hopped a jet for Hollywood. There, after hiring a Capitol Records studio, he gathered together his arranger-conductor (Jazz Great Benny Carter), a crack 49-piece band (including Saxophonist Bud Shank, Drummer Louis Bellson, Guitarist Barney Kessel), Vocalists Carmen McRae and Joe Williams, and a chorus of twelve. Then for the next few days he sat back and listened to the best that the music profession can do with songs like his Look What I Found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mitty Ditties | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

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