Word: occurs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daylight just before its close approach to the sun in December, and even more spectacularly in the evening during January as it begins to move away. Perhaps the most remarkable sight will be seen by observers in Latin America. On the day before Christmas, an annular eclipse* will occur over South America. That should create an awesome Yuletide display: a fiery ring of sunlight, the Comet Kohoutek and the bright planets Jupiter and Venus, all grouped in the same area of the eclipse-darkened...
ORIGINALLY an idealistic go-getter who fits neatly into the commercial world, the young man becomes transformed (by a prison term), into an idealistic do-gooder. It takes nearly two hours for this first transformation to occur, but the second is much more rapid. McDowell dishes soup to derelicts, who then attack him. He becomes disillusioned. He wanders through London until he sees a man walking around Picadilly Circus wearing a sandwich board which announces open casting for a new film. He goes to the casting room, is picked out of the crowd of would-be stars by director Lindsay...
...biggest change that will occur as a result of the Putnam appointment will be a financial one. The initial cost to Harvard of investment management will probably skyrocket...
Monotony is a charge sometimes leveled against Macdonald. To be honest, his books do share a striking similarity on the surface. Virtually all of them begin with a kidnapping or blackmailing which, it later develops, is intimately related to a murder that occurred about a quarter of a century ago. That murder was, as likely as not, witnessed by a small child, who has grown up to become a central figure in the new crime. And all of these events occur in the overripe city of Los Angeles or in the dusty, hot, neighboring Southern California towns...
...pages of a serious recent book, The Energy Crisis (Crown; $5.95), by Lawrence Rocks and Richard P. Runyon, both professors at Long Island's C.W. Post College. Unless the U.S. takes serious measures to find new sources of energy, the authors warn, such massive turmoil could occur in the U.S. by the 1980s. While the apocalyptic view of Rocks and Runyon is exaggerated, talk about an energy crisis is more than hyperbole...