Word: parke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates for the oldest-form-of-life title are organisms that scientists have dubbed "archaebacteria." They are found in airless recesses like Yellowstone National Park's hot springs, thrive in temperatures ranging from 65° to 70° C. (150° to 170° F.), take in carbon dioxide and hydrogen, give off methane gas, and have been known to scientists for years. But it took the efforts of a team led by Geneticist Carl Woese of the University of Illinois in Urbana to demonstrate that the archaebacteria had an extraordinary characteristic. Using enzymes, or chemical catalysts, they broke...
...Washington Park in Groton, Conn. this past summer a strange conglomeration of individuals could often be seen kicking a spotted black and white soccer ball back and forth between makeshift goals made out of surplus shirts and shoes...
...murder to go unsolved might be seen by outsiders as a sign of the area's deterioration. Police charged a neighborhood handyman, Joseph D'Amico, 48, with the slaying. The alleged cause of the killing: a quarrel over botched repair work he had done on Treglia's sidewalk. > Park Slope was a well-to-do neighborhood of elegant three-story brownstone mansions until their owners began moving to the suburbs. The area's slow decline was partly arrested in the 1960s when middle-class professionals began renovating many of the houses, including one that was bought by Lawyer Hugh Carey...
DIED. James M. Cain, 85, author (Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce) known for stark portrayals of violence and sexual betrayal; of a heart attack; in University Park, Md. After a stint as an essayist for H.L Mencken's American Mercury, Cain moved to Hollywood. Although he failed as a scenarist, his crime stories and novels won critical acclaim for his portrayal of what Cain called "the dreadful, the impious, the shame of God." His adrenal, brooding style influenced later writers, including Albert Camus...
...haven't had anything go right for us this season," lamented Harvard cross-country captain Stein Rafto after the harriers journeyed to New York City yesterday to finish ninth out of a ten-school field competing in the Heptagonals at Van Cortland Park...