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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earnest pleas that his abrupt departure from Carter's Cabinet not be used to fuel black-Jewish divisions, inevitably it has. Though the two groups, once so closely and warmly allied in the early civil rights struggle, have been drifting apart for years, the spectacle of such open animosity and barbed exchanges as took place last week was dismaying...
...that is now Morvi, you strike a body." So said Pankaj Zaveri, a survivor of the most disastrous accident ever to befall India. In the midafternoon of a torrentially rainy Saturday, the 197-ft.-high earthen Machhu dam in western India's Gujarat state suddenly burst open. The waters behind it boiled six miles down a river in the state's Saurashtra district and crashed into Morvi, a semi-industrial town of 75,000, known as "the Paris of Saurashtra" because of its many green parks and broad avenues. Mud houses were entirely swept away, brick and concrete...
...been designed to cope with an average annual rainfall of 22 in. The storm that precipitated the collapse dumped 28 in. of rain on the region in less than 24 hours. Water was already lapping over the top of the dam when engineers rushed to try to open the sluice gates. But some of the gates stuck, for reasons still unexplained, and thus India's "Paris" was doomed...
...camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking." Christopher Isherwood wrote the lines 40 years ago in his novel Goodbye to Berlin. The author is about to celebrate his 75th birthday, and he is still clicking away. His latest book, titled My Guru and His Disciple, depicts his relationship with Swami Prabhavananda, a Hindu monk Isherwood first befriended in 1939. To be published early next year, the memoir takes care of what Isherwood calls his "sacred side." He is now working on a book about his "profane side"-his years as a Hollywood scriptwriter. Obviously this cameraman...
...their feet an instrument case usually lies open. Listeners offer what they can-a few coins, flowers, a can of beer, a potato. A drunk once astonished a Boston musician by removing his trousers and donating them. Best of all are the "silent offerings" (noiseless folding green). The average take is $5 to $10 an hour, but talent and a good location can raise that to $30 or $40, and occasionally more...