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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a growing private income, Edith concentrated all of her energies redoing her homes on Park Avenue and in Newport. She eventually built The Mount, a mansion constructed to her own perfectionist taste in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. There was nevertheless plenty of time to write. Edith, who had begun an unfinished novel as a child, sent poems and then short stories to the literary magazines. Her first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902, just after her 40th birthday...
...state of Illinois has a new champion rooster. He is a large black and brown Araucana called Hawkeye, and he is owned by John Lynch, 12, of Mount Pulaski, Ill. After a lot of urging and grimacing, John last week persuaded Hawkeye to crow 69 times within a half-hour, 26 times more than his nearest rival at the state fair in Springfield. In Georgia, meanwhile, they are still talking about the new tobacco-spitting champion, Mrs. Marie Davidek by name. "You wouldn't believe it," said Bob Anderson, manager of the 25th annual Georgia Mountain Fair. "Here...
...trained for moon landings. A three-day outing for $250 combines a stay at Katmai's resort hotel with hikes into a wilderness hundreds of miles from other human habitation. And there are organized dogsled trips: Anchorage's Denali's Dog Tours offers four days from Mount McKinley Park headquarters into Toklat Lake...
Critics of the Berkeley study are likely to insist that diet still cannot be discounted as a cause of coronaries. But researchers like Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, cardiologists from San Francisco's Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, find that the study's conclusions support the theory espoused by their book, Type A Behavior and Your Heart (TIME, April 15, 1974). The San Francisco doctors have long insisted that the American way of life is hard on the heart. The Berkeley study suggests that they are right...
...been bothered before; something more complicated than moral nausea, more troubling than a voyeuristic shudder." To locate that "something," he flew to Soviet Armenia to walk the hallowed ground and converse with remnants of a country that was no longer a nation. The place was a reconciliation of opposites. Mount Ararat, where Noah had brought his ark to rest, hid the radar stations of NATO. The literate Armenians liked "Jerome Salinger" and refused to talk of Solzhenitsyn. They were grateful for a land free of the old oppressions; yet some had seen their sons taken away by the Russian secret...