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...someone up on Niagara [a stretch of the men's downhill run] to tighten a section of the safety net?" He paused to survey his mountain: "The worst thing that could happen now is for it to snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: With Homemade Snow and Dreams of the Past | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

What had a Niagara of cascading hair, a smile like sunrays, some discreet thigh and a revolutionary effect on the poster business? A picture of Farrah Fawcett, that's what. The Farrah poster, still the alltime bestseller in a crowded field, pushed aside peace symbols and cartoon characters. Top draws today include such entries as Farrah's replacement Angel, Cheryl Ladd, and WKRP in Cincinnati's Loni Anderson, but Muppetdonna Miss Piggy is way up on the charts too, as a kind of ham amid the cheese. Beefcake has sold as well, including young Rock Stars Andy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 28, 1980 | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Recycling industries, a Harvard-contracted disposal firm is now shipping its asbestos waste, along with other chemical wastes, to Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Williamsburg, Ohio, James Purrington, the firm's environmental engineer, said yesterday...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Contractors Forced to Store Waste | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

EVERY TIME it rains, an industrial landfill near Niagara Falls turns red with leaking chemicals. One of those chemicals is called dioxin; three ounces of it, properly distributed, would destroy the entire population of New York City. There are two thousand pounds of dioxin in the landfill...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: The Politics of Pollution | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...clause litigation; 70. went down a swimming pool slide arm-first; 71. Dune buggy accident; 72. car accident; 73. airplane crash; 74. gunshot wounds as a result of duel in native P.R.; 75. asphyxiation; 76. leukemia; 77. knife wounds; 78. mysteriously disappeared after being let off train just before Niagara Falls bridge--body found in river days later; 79. killed by pitched ball; 80. Gary, IN; 81. Frank Duffy and Sam McDowell to the Giants; 82. Nettles and Jerry Moses went to the Yankees for John Ellis, Jerry Kenney, Charlie Spikes, and Rosendo Torres; 83. Willie Montanez and Jim Browning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Answers to 1979 Cube Baseball Quiz | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

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