Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharp contrast to a heavyhanded one waged two years ago on behalf of a transportation bond issue. That was defeated, and the moral might be that voters do not like to be bludgeoned into action. In New Jersey a proposed $650 million transportation issue was defeated. The conservationist Sierra Club was successful in its determined campaign to convince New Jerseyites that the bill called for too much money for road building and not enough for mass transportation...
...April 1970 five-month-old Thomas Robison of Arroyo Grande was admitted to Sierra Vista Hospital in nearby San Luis Obispo, where Xrays showed that his skull was fractured from ear to ear. The boy's 17-year-old mother, who was living with an AWOL soldier, said he had fallen off a bed, and the child was returned to the mother three days later. Twice within the next month he required further hospital treatment for injuries that included whip welts on the back, puncture wounds in the neck, and burned fingertips; the last time he had strangulation marks...
...THING YOU'D least expect from any Soviet-bloc film industry, much less Poland's is an elegant celebration of magic. Wojciech Haas's The Saragossa Manuscript recounts the picaresque adventures of a captain of the Walloon Guards who crosses the Sierra Morena Mountains during the Spanish Inquisition. In so doing, Haas convinces us that we need transcendent poetry to arrive at the ideals we live by. When we want to escape or transform history, as in the era which Haas presents to us, spiritualism proves a better source of values than social traditions and conventions...
MONDAY: Bogart. Bogey fans get a break. Cambridge's own Channel 56 begins a week-long Bogart festival tonight with To Have and have Not. Other features include Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, and Key Large...
...story inn from "a small group" is "based on vague, uncertain and ambiguous aesthetic concepts and preferences." The small group to which Kanavos alludes includes the Harvard Square Business Association, the head of the Cambridge Planning Department, the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, the Harvard Square Task Force, the Sierra Club, the Cambridge Conservation Commission and the Planning for People Committee. And it takes no genius to envision the oddity of a 19-story Holiday Inn erupting into the Cambridge skyline from a position not 100 yards from Cronin's Restaurant. The incongruity of the Nation's Innkeeper rising twice...