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...fields to find out-the air is so black I might get lost." In eastern Colorado, too, gusts of wind up to 90 m.p.h. scooped up the drought-dry topsoil, hurling some five tons of the precious dirt off each acre of land during a 24-hour storm. Observed Rod Johnson, a federal agriculture official: "The eastern three-fourths of Kiowa County is moving...
...sleuth down her cat. The woman, Margo Sperling, is played by Lily Tomlin. Her character comes straight out of a stock bit she does on television specials and in night-clubs: the astrology nut, pseudo-psychoanalyst and perpetual high-on-lifer all rolled into one. When Welles flashes a rod for the first time in her presence, she cheerfully informs him that "my shrink says that people who play with guns are usually impotent...
...that the dissidents are only a handful of troublemakers who are cleverly using the Western press to draw attention to themselves and are in turn being used by Western governments to stir up trouble in Communist countries. Last week Pravda accused the West of dangling dissidents "on the fishing rod of bourgeois propaganda" so as to distract "the masses from the deep crisis in the capitalist system...
February '77--Ask anybody. Ask Rod Stewart. "Tonight's the night. Gonna be all right. Nobody's gonna stop...
Last week, after months of patient investigation, CDC officials in Atlanta proudly announced that one of the agency's researchers had apparently found the cause of Legionnaires' disease. The likely culprit: a hitherto unknown rod-shaped bacterium that also may have caused an unexplained outbreak of a pneumonia-like disease that killed at least 16 people in 1965 at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington...