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...ponds where it could dump the water. And the company could also kill two birds with one stone: it would build the dams out of the gob pile that just lay smoldering beside the mine--unhealthy situation that. You couldn't really call it a dam--no engineering, no overflow, no drains, just back some trucks up to the hollow mouth, and dump this waste in--there was your...
...Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, Reverend Moon, whose country was once a target for Christian missionaries, is now three years into his program for turning the tables on the West and evangelizing it for his own (TIME, Nov. 10). He had forecast an overflow crowd of 200,000, perhaps even an absurd million, for his stadium extravaganza. In preparation, 1,500 of his relentlessly smiling young followers held brass-band rallies from Harlem to Wall Street, plastered every available wall with red-white-and-blue posters bearing Moon's smiling face, and handed out free...
...flags and green-white-and-red Italian tricolors, slender Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, 53, formally opened the campaign at a massive rally. He called for "an end to the disastrous predominance of the Christian Democrats" and urged voters to "give Italy a government that's different." Significantly, the overflow audience that roared approval of Berlinguer's words was mostly young and middle class...
MONTEZUMA. Some people transform a stage. Sarah Caldwell revolutionizes it. At the premiere of Montezuma, it was difficult to recognize the tiny (26-ft.-deep) stage of Boston's old Orpheum Theater. The apron had been built out 8 ft. The lower boxes had been converted into overflow basins for extra members of the orchestra, mostly percussion. Through the upper boxes paraded soldiers and Aztec natives on their way to destiny. Behind scrims and translucent screens soldiers fought silhouetted battles that suggested endless depth...
...conventional measure of economic development is "a complete red herring," Joan Robinson, professor emeritus of economics from Cambridge University, said yesterday before an overflow audience in Emerson...