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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When bulldozers began clearing ground for a parking lot last November, Hong Kong government engineers expected no obstacles greater than some boulders and a few scruffy trees. They reckoned that the parking site, on a hill atop the tiny border village of Lok Ma Chau, would enable busloads of tourists to view China conveniently from the hill's observation post...
Jerry Lewis has taken to its pulpit to deliver a sermon on what it means to him to be a Jew. Walter Matthau has charmed his fellow congregants with a rendition of Sholom Aleichem stories. Love Story Author Erich Segal read a poem on forgiveness for Yom Kippur. The site of all this star-powered piety? One of Hollywood's newest in-spots, the Synagogue for the Performing Arts...
...Beaver II - with the permission of the Boston authorities - and threw empty oil drums into the harbor to protest the petroleum industry's failure to head off the fuel crisis. As a final ingredient in the Watergate-laden atmosphere, many Bostonians noted only half in jest that the site of the original tea party has now been filled in. It is occupied by the head quarters of the Sheraton hotel chain, a division of ITT, a company that has been deeply implicated in the Administration scandals...
...thirds in the executive offices of its sprawling building. Like hundreds of other firms, Connecticut General also has reduced lighting in the cafeteria, hallways and the parking lot, cut down the use of fans and air conditioning, and turned off some escalators. As a result, fuel consumption at the site has been reduced by 25%. The Martin Marietta aerospace plant in Denver last week removed every other light in its hallways, and turned off almost all remaining lights after 6 p.m. Refrigeration has been disconnected on all drinking fountains, hot water throughout the plant has been cut from...
...Harvard-educated lawyers come to the aid of a group of Kansas farmers who don't want to see their land taken away and used as a site for a new power plant. The arguments seem reasonable: The acreage is zoned for agriculture, not industry. Kansas law prohibits any corporation from owning more than 5000-acre tracts of farmland, and the power company wants...