Word: pleasanter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citizens of Rutherford, N.J., a prosperous, green and pleasant town seven miles from New York City, normally use their well-appointed high school auditorium for everything from class plays to graduations. But last week more than 500 parents were gathered there for a very grim purpose. School officials, acting on reports from parents alarmed by an apparently high incidence of cancers in the town, had compiled a list of eleven residents recently afflicted either with leukemia or Hodgkin's disease and asked state health authorities to investigate. Now the townspeople were assembled to hear the findings...
...other singles matches led to somewhat more pleasant results. Suddenly superb Andy Chaikovsky picked up his seventh straight singles victory in a long, tough three-setter with Penn's Dan Moses. "Chaik" lost his edge in the second set before charging back in the third to win, 7-5, 2-6, 6-4. Five-man Kevin Shaw kept close on Chaikovsky's heels, winning his fifth straight match when he handled Paul Moss in a relatively easy three-setter...
...afternoon-cap of the doubleheader was definitely the more pleasant affair of the two. The sun sort of came out of the clouds, Harvard bats finally made some noise above the Mason-Dixon line, and the Woodsmen axed three more grounders to embarrass themselves further...
...economic recovery, which has raised the take from income and sales taxes. During the recession, most states and cities cut spending deeply, and generally they continued to hold back during the early days of the rebound. Last year revenues surged far ahead of spending, giving the states especially the pleasant problem of what to do with the money...
...awaits the return of a philandering husband, not at all certain he will come back to her or that it will be good if he does. Another daughter has brought along a man she has picked up. Though the growth of genuine love between them is one of the pleasant parts of this movie, the woman has other problems-a daughter of her own who is a latchkey child and a close woman friend: a despondent revolutionary with a near-psychotic child who is the noisiest serpent in this garden...