Word: pontchartrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit was to persuade Khomeini to return to Iran and help defuse the crisis. But Khomeini refused to see the ambassador. He will not return to Iran, he insists, until the Shah's rule has ended. Last week TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis interviewed Khomeini at a guarded farmhouse in Pontchartrain. Excerpts from the interview...
...taxis and buses and busses. An unhurried few, passengers and employees, linger on the platform to shake hands and say goodbye. Steward Steve Cosmos refuses a tip. "See you in Mexico," says the retired railroad man. "God bless!" says Luther King. That night, in the opulence of the Pontchartrain Hotel, the immobile voyager cannot sleep. He misses the creaks and bleeps and wee-hour talk of yesterday. Or maybe yesteryear? - Michael Demarest
Shakespeare sang of the darling buds of May, Tennyson of a young man's fancy, and Eliot of the mixing of memory and desire. Mary Ann Gaiownik, 32, a waitress at the Pontchartrain Hotel in Detroit, last week offered another description of the season that was sweeping across the nation. "I love it," she said. "You can open the windows of your house, and you can open the windows of your car and play your music as loud as you want. Spring means I don't get depressed...
...Parlange well extended the known limits of the Tuscaloosa Sand, which is named for the Alabama county where it crops to the surface. In Louisiana, the "trend" (main potential gas-producing formation) lies four miles beneath the green bayous and sugar-cane fields and stretches 200 miles from Lake Pontchartrain to the Texas border. Because of its depth, high temperature and geological history, the Tuscaloosa Sand has produced mostly gas, very little...
...leasing and prospecting activity. Altogether, major oil companies and independents have leased more than 1.8 million acres. Some landowners got as much as $350 an acre and a one-third share in future production. The state of Louisiana, controlling 5 million acres, leased land on the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain for $324 an acre and a choice site elsewhere at $1,500 an acre in competitive bidding. So far, the Tuscaloosa Sand has yielded 14 producing or potentially producing wells...