Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SORCERER OF BOLINAS REEF...
...other power plants in the area. The National Park Service agreed that the plant's emissions would harm the region; some 20% of the country's land managed by the National Park Service-including the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Bryce, Zion, Grand Canyon and Capital Reef national parks-is located within 250 miles of the proposed plant site. Two weeks ago, in an action that probably hastened the consortium's decision, 31 members of Congress suggested even further delays in the plant's oft-stalled construction by formally asking Kleppe to withhold approval pending...
...apparent heart attack; in Los Angeles. Herrmann's association with Orson Welles dated from the radio days of the 1930s to his scoring of Welles' landmark film Citizen Kane. Later, for such Sci-fi thrillers as The Day the Earth Stood Still and Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, he mingled discordant wails of electronic instruments to evoke the sounds of rolling thunder or blood-curdling shrieks. Among Herrmann's nonfilm credits were his opera Wuthering Heights (1950) and a cantata, Moby Dick...
...their desperate, headlong flight, some had waded or swum across the Cunene River into South West Africa (Namibia). Many had made the perilous journey in fishing trawlers down the reef-ridden coast to Walvis Bay. Still others had crossed the desert in broken-down trucks and cars. Then, beginning five months ago, a massive air-and sea-lift returned them to their native country (TIME, Sept. 22). By last week 300,000 of them had arrived in Portugal -os retornados (the returned), the refugees who are the bitter harvest of Angola's civil...
...watching the flying fish skitter like fusiform silver bugs from the indigo waves, you slip into the most delectable and mindless of rhythms. That can be a mistake, even for real captains: one bright afternoon in 1971, the Antilles, a 20,000-ton French cruise liner, rammed a reef between the islands of Mustique and Carriacou at full steam, and its hulk still lies in the sun as a sobering memento mori...