Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wednesday, police used tear gas to disperse American University demonstrators blocking rush-hour traffic. Although students massed again yesterday, police did not move...
...possible, for all Eastern European countries in the flight pattern in case the flight is diverted. Steel nerves for rough flight, regardless of weather. Be armed with plenty of Western reading material, for only in Yugoslavia can you buy it freely. If plane is diverted, immediately upon landing rush to transit counter and start demanding whatever other transportation is available. It will take hours to gain results. If not in a hurry, try to find most comfortable chair, settle in for a long stay and relax...
...Ridgefield High in Connecticut spilled oil into tanks of water to learn the effects of oil pollution. But the big show was for the 22nd, and every leading environmentalist was booked to lecture long in advance. Ecologist Barry Commoner's schedule was the busiest, calling for him to rush from Harvard and M.I.T. to Rhode Island College and finally to Brown University. Population Biologist Paul Ehrlich was lined up for speeches at Iowa State, Biologist René Dubos at U.C.L.A., Ralph Nader at State University of New York in Buffalo. In addition, such heroes of the young...
...archipelago has been producing oil from land-based wells since 1893; last year the flow was 850,000 bbl. a day, compared to about 9,000,000 bbl. daily output in the U.S. The offshore rush began to heat up last year, when a combine of Atlantic Richfield and IIAPCO (a subsidiary of San Francisco-based Natomas Co.) made a find of potentially commercial size in the Java Sea. Soon after, Japex Indonesia Ltd., a Japanese government-controlled company, discovered oil in the Malacca Strait. Japex's results have yet to measure up to early expectations, but the Atlantic...
...rush already has spread benefits throughout the region, notably to Singapore, the principal supply center for prospectors. In partnership with the Singapore government, Santa Fe-Pomeroy Services, Inc., a U.S. company, has leased part of an abandoned British naval base and established a humming business supplying the offshore oilmen with pipe, chemicals and even food. Shell has built a $60 million refinery in Singapore, and Esso is putting up another. An estimated 1,500 Americans have moved in, including the families of several executives who commute to Djakarta, 557 miles away...