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...council unanimously passed an order requesting the state Quality and Environmental Engineering Commission to examine the dump, and the site of the nearby Fresh Pond Shopping Center, for chemicals hazardous to the health...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Councilors Say Dump Is Possible Hazard | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

...Jincy, a runaway from her abusing mother. She comments: "This is weird. I'm in a strange barn, shoveling hay for an elephant that belongs to a nigger." Meanwhile, Suder has decided to build a pair of wings and fly over a nearby body of water called Ezra Pond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laugh track | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

Beyond all talk of technique, though, is the larger issue of what Western music means to the Japanese. Takashi Funayama, a musicology professor at Tokyo University of Arts, compares the musical scene to a flower floating placidly on a pond. "It is big and very beautiful," he says, "but it has no roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Like a Flower on a Pond | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Joe Delaney, 24, star halfback of the Kansas City Chiefs; of drowning when he dived into a pond to rescue two floundering boys; in Monroe, La. Smallish for a pro football running back (5 ft. 10 in., 184 Ibs.) but remarkably quick and agile, Delaney rushed for a team record of 1,121 yds. and caught 22 passes as a 1981 rookie. The father of three children, one a newborn baby, he first warned the youngsters not to swim in a construction site's 20-ft.-deep water hole, plunged in after them and, although he knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Who Believed in Mankind | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

They took hours to unload everything. At least one alumnus brought along a TV, apparently anticipating some dull moments in the action-packed schedule which lasts through post-Commencement hucksterism. But between carting the children to Walden Pond and the adults to prepaid boogies at the Metro, the smooth reunion organizers don't leave much room to reflect...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Join the Crowd | 6/8/1983 | See Source »

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