Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disconnected more than Hinsdale. More than half a million other suburban residents could not make long-distance calls, or even ring up nearby Chicago. O'Hare Airport endured two days of flight delays when controllers lost contact with the air-traffic control center in Aurora, Ill. From posh Oak Brook, where companies like McDonald's have their headquarters, to the high-tech corridor along the East-West Tollway, circuits were jammed for days...
When Clarice Conley was nine years old, her mother and grandmother began the initiation. Dressed in her finest, shoes shiny, gloves pristine, she was allowed to follow them through the heavy oak doors of the Highland Park Ebell Club in the hills of northeastern Los Angeles. In the cavernous main hall, surrounded by distinguished ladies with brows aloft, she listened to dramatic readings, or speeches on art or tropical Brazil. The children even had a dining room all their...
...people here don't eat rice . . . The second is that there aren't any people." Sanger, whose career is on the skids, responds glumly, "Even my disaster area is a disaster." Then something amazing occurs. A tractor under Mallory's direction tips over the huge stump of an old oak tree, and water begins to bubble up from the cavity below. First a trickle, then a stream. Soon a broad brown current several hundred yards wide spreads itself north and south. Knowing a dramatic photo opportunity when he sees one, Sanger revises his plans and sets out to videotape...
...Calamity Jane. "Sixty years ago," says Gene Sarazen, still slickered down and knickered up and still playing golf at 86, "I had a rotten grip. If you ask me, that's why there are so many excellent players today. A good grip is like a solid hinge on an oak door." Sarazen goes back to hickory sticks that required shellacking in the rain, and is amused by the '80s fashion, which encompasses titanium shafts, tungsten fibers, beryllium-copper, manganese-bronze and high-modulus graphite. "Of course," he says, "the modern player thinks it's the equipment. You know that...
Even in the most determined of America's carnivorous strongholds, '80s-style vegetarianism is on the rise. About 8 million Americans, from Rock Star Madonna to television's Mr. Rogers, now call themselves vegetarians. Vegetarian Times magazine, based in Oak Park, Ill., claims that fully 2 million of them have gone over to vegetarianism since 1985. The publication, which features Vegetarian Actor River Phoenix on its current cover, has seen its circulation double in the past two years to 150,000. Untold other Americans are aspiring vegetarians or semivegetarians who indulge in some chicken and fish. The new Vegetarian Times...