Word: oak
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...story. In the series, the Big O outscored the Pearl 94 to 65, while Lew topped Wes 108 to 60. Forward Jack Marin, the Bullets' highest scorer in the series, said of Alcindor: "Every time you make a move to the hoop, you run right into that giant oak tree. You just can't make any penetration, and you can't beat anybody by taking 20-footers all night." After the game, one Baltimore fan offered a solution similar to that so often proposed by the Yankee-haters of old: "Those Bucks oughta be disbanded...
...years ago, Black Jack, Mo., was bucolic farmland, a crossroads settlement that took its name from a stand of blackjack oak trees that once shaded farmers on their way to market in St. Louis, 15 miles to the north. All of this changed in the '60s with the arrival of the subdividers and developers who cut many of the farms into lots, built ranch and split-level houses in the $30,000 to $35,000 price range. Soon Black Jack was engulfed by the white exodus to the suburbs. Now the town is in the middle of a controversy...
...reservations offices to suburban Southfield, which has also attracted the headquarters of Advance Mortgage Corp. The publishing firm of R. I. Polk and the Michigan Automobile Club are about to quit the city. Circus World is moving its toy warehouse from the fringe of the ghetto to Royal Oak to escape break-ins (80 in six months), fire bombs, sniper bullets, and what President Sidney Rubin calls "almost continual stoning." Laments Rubin: "We had to put our crews on 24-hour shifts to protect the property. No private security patrol would take us as a client. We feared...
...environmentalists designed the suit to force TVA-whose charter includes conservation-to use its influence as a major coal buyer to control the surface miners' practices. The suit names the Kentucky Oak Mining Co. as TVA's principal supplier in eastern Kentucky. Although state reclamation officials have praised Kentucky Oak's efforts to plant apple and peach trees on stripped land and its experiments with terracing, successful reclamation is extremely difficult on the steep slopes. Indeed, residents have few kind words for the company. "They've destroyed the mountains," says Paul Ashley, a leading local opponent...
Chicago is multiple dwellings, and the proportion rises as high as 90% in such suburbs as Oak Park. At the core of the problem is sheer population pressure. "It's more crowded here now," says Joseph McCarthy, 36, a Grumman Corp. engineer who lives in East Northport, L.I. "A few years back it was almost a rural area. Now you have traffic to contend with that you never had to worry about before...