Word: rans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Matt Strominger died last week in a mountain-climbing accident. He served as a Crimson staff photgrapher while at Harvard. His photo feature of life at a Wyoming ranch ran on March 15, 1978. We reprint it now in memory...
...Incas were so enamored of the beast that only the royal family was permitted to eat it or wear garments made from its wool. Under such protection, an estimated population of 2 million vicunña ran wild. But after the Incas' downfall the fragile creatures fell on hard times 'too Prized for their soft, fleecy wool (now selling for $90 a lb.),* the vicuñas became the buffalo of the Andes: there were fewer than 10,000 in Peru by the late 1960s, and they were practically wiped out elsewhere...
...harder for the truckers to stay idle. Monthly payments for their rigs are as high as $2,000, more than the cost of most home mortgages. They stand to lose a lot of money by refusing to work, and they do not have a strike fund. They also ran into a tough reaction from local governments. Admits Mac Vernon, a spokesman for the Independent Truckers Association: "Local officials are getting injunctions to stop picketing and blockading, and some companies are saying, 'You either run or you're fired...
...prime topic of conversation between the two Presidents was the future of some 30,000 U.S. troops still in South Korea. Shortly after taking office, Carter announced that all American ground troops would be withdrawn over a four-to five-year period. The President's decision ran into such strong opposition from Congress, the South Koreans and the Japanese, however, that the withdrawals were halted in February, after some 3,400 troops had been sent home, largely because of a U.S. intelligence "reappraisal" indicating that the North Koreans have now acquired military superiority over the South. The study concluded...
...costly, aesthetically wrenching design change instituted earlier this year, and by a new computer system that has caused production problems. Though even those who disliked Kosner admired his drive and intelligence, his biting humor and autocratic style were said to have irked many subordinates. Said one: "He ran a one-man show...