Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Creek, the Hudson is totally different from the lordly river that passes New York City, 287 miles downstream. The races are run where the Hudson is still fresh, clear, wild and lovely, befitting a river that rises from a tarn-28 miles to the north-with the haunting name of Lake Tear of the Clouds. Visitors from Manhattan are always startled to see the locals cup their hands and drink right out of the stream...
There are those who would like to dress up the derby a bit so that it could be sanctioned by the American Canoe Association, which awards points used in compiling national rankings. But the residents of North Creek are not at all sure they want that. Says Walt Schultz, 65, who has helped run all 21 events: "With the A.C.A., we'd still have to do all the work and they'd just tell us what to do. We don't want to kowtow to the great canoeists. All we want is a fun weekend-strictly amateur...
Bill Miller has a noxious problem. The Federal Reserve chairman is a non-smoker in a crowd of the heaviest puffers north of Winston-Salem. Treasury Secretary Mike Blumenthal is constantly chewing on Jamaican cigars. Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon is inseparable from his pipe. Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Charles Schultze chain-smokes cigarettes. When near them, Miller sits in tolerant agony. But at the nation's central bank, Miller is very much in charge. Around the Federal Reserve's board room, which long was redolent with the fumes from Arthur Burns' briar, new black signs...
...country. Nonetheless, the All Saints' uprising-swiftly followed by savage reprisals against Algeria's Muslim majority-marked the beginning of a bloody conflict that lasted for nearly eight years. It led to the birth of a new republic and the eradication of the French presence in North Africa. But at what a cost! According to Algerian figures, as many as 1 million Muslims died during and after the war. French casualties, military and civilian, are estimated at 27,000 killed and some 65,000 injured. When the end came, a terrible exodus began. Forced to choose between...
...barely nose through. Bridges cross dry gulches overgrown with weeds and shrubs. Many once plentiful plants and birds are gone, and human beings who live there are disfigured by skin cancer. The scene is 300 sq. mi. in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, a once lush strip north of Rio de Janeiro that is now on its way to becoming a desert. The cause of this ecological disaster...