Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parkland that surround the palace. For exercise the onetime king of the ski slopes has taken up golf under the tutelage of Claude Harmon Jr., the American pro who taught Hassan to play. So far the Shah has yet to finish 18 holes at the royal golf club near the palace...
...Empress, who in exile has become his rock and his shield, screens out the importunate. One welcome arrival last week, however, was Crown Prince Reza, 18, their oldest son, who had won his pilot's wings after eight months' training at Reese Air Force Base near Lubbock, Texas, and had come to show them off to his father and fellow flyer. Alas for Reza, time may now hang heavy for him too. The wings came too late for the youth who had expected to command the Iranian armed forces and some day the country...
...shows a near disaster at an atomic-powered electrical generating plant located uncomfortably near Los Angeles. The film also depicts the utility company that owns the plant and the contractor that built it resorting to lies, corruption and violence to prevent the public from discovering how narrowly a disaster was averted, how large is the potential for similar incidents in the future−and never mind the sizable body of scientific opinion about the improbability of a chain of accidents anything like that posited by the film...
...another example of energy trouble and vulnerability, the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Commission ordered the immediate shutdown of five mid-Atlantic and New England nuclear power generators on the statistically improbable grounds that an earthquake might occur near by and cause them to pour out radioactive materials. U.S. oil consumption will quickly jump by 100,000 bbl. a day as the affected public utilities switch to increased production by oil-fired generators...
DIED. Nelson Morgan Davis, 72, eccentric Canadian businessman; of drowning; in Phoenix. A native Ohioan who moved to Toronto in 1929, Davis amassed a fortune estimated at $100 million with a string of manufacturing and transport companies. He once paid $10,000 to have a meteorite that landed near Cleveland crushed and sent to Toronto to cover his driveway with its dust-free gravel and keep visitors from tracking dirt into his living room...