Word: mi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Wednesday, walls began to shake and buckle in Muradiye, a hardscrabble, mud-and-stone mountain town near the Turko-Iranian border. Soon houses were crumbling across an area of 300 sq. mi. The worst Turkish earthquake in nearly 40 years, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale,* had convulsed the eastern part of the country, with Muradiye at its epicenter. At week's end it was estimated that 5,000 people had died in the quake and its aftershocks; countless thousands of others were suffering from hunger and exposure...
...done as a behavioral therapist with autistic children. His personal view of man as a daydreamer watching his own interior screen fuels an obsessive curiosity about human communication without words. When words do occur in Einstein, they are likely to be numbers or solfege syllables like do, re, mi that are bleached of definition. Feeling but not meaning is conveyed by Gertrude Steinian repetition. So mesmeric are the proceedings that it is startling when the curtain finally drops. In Einstein on the Beach, Wilson has created more of a dream than an opera. Joan Downs
...Ludwig's most intriguing ventures is little known outside his 34th-floor offices in Manhattan's Burlington House. In 1967 Ludwig paid $3 million to a group of Brazilian families for a 4,650-sq.-mi. swatch of rain forest in Brazil's remote Amazon region. He then set in motion a bold plan for developing the tract, which is almost the size of the state of Connecticut, to help meet the future world shortages of food, lumber, and wood pulp for papermaking that he expects. Although the crisis has not appeared?at least not yet?Ludwig has quietly...
...young toughs with names like the Black Killers, the Errol Flynns, the Sheridan Strips and the Bishops virtually took over the streets of the city's scrubby east side. Perhaps as many as 500 of the gang members are concentrated in the impoverished Fifth Precinct, a 6-sq.-mi. moonscape of abandoned storefronts, crumbling homes and schools, littered streets and sidewalks. Once a quiet white community, the precinct is nearly all black, its various sections divided into territories controlled by one or another of the gangs...
...Moslems en route to the southern Lebanese port of Tyre. Regaining the offensive, the Christians set about carving out an enclave stretching from East Beirut north to Tripoli between the Mediterranean and the Lebanon Mountains. By last week the only remaining Moslems in important numbers in the 800-sq.-mi. area were Palestinians in refugee camps. The Christians have leveled some of their heaviest firepower on the camps. Three weeks ago they captured Jisr Basha in East Beirut with heavy casualties, and last week they were mopping up around larger Tel Zaatar, which once housed 17,000 civilian Palestinians...