Word: snow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After reading your story on Joseph Califano and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare [June 12], I am convinced that this country needs another round of Mr. Califano about as much as Miami Beach needs snow...
...February and March, because he felt we should see the people dying. What we saw, I now no longer believe-except that my scribbled notes insist I saw what I saw. There were the bodies: the first, no more than an hour out of Loyang, lying in the snow, a day or two dead, her face shriveled about her skull; she must have been young; and the snow fell on her eyes; and she would lie unburied until the birds or the dogs cleaned her bones. The dogs were also there along the road, slipping back to their wolf kinship...
...Snow still caps the fir-covered mountains of southwest Oregon despite the warm spring sun that has lured burly loggers from their hibernation and drawn orchardmen back to their pear trees. In this lovely, sparsely populated land, dark green trees provide jobs and profits. But among the budding fruit boughs of the Rogue River Valley and in isolated clearings hacked deep in the quiet cedar and pine forests, new patches of a distinctly lighter green are flourishing this spring. Like pears and firs, this crop is a moneymaker, yielding an estimated $70 million a year. But, unlike the other natural...
Neither rain nor snow nor complaints about slow delivery nor public worry about inflation can keep the Postal Service from completing its next appointed round of rate increases. By the end of May, the service will raise mailing costs enough to push some businesses into lifting their prices more and sooner than they otherwise would have done. For all classes of mail, the rise voted last week by the Postal Rate Commission averages 25.5%. First-class postage goes from 13? to 15? (vs. 6? as recently as 1971). The cost of second-class mail for magazines and newspapers will jump...
Some parts of the country had rain, even snow, but the Sun Day celebration still went on. At U.C.L.A., plans to cook popcorn on a solar-powered device were rained out, but 600 Sun Day sundaes-vanilla ice cream, orange slices, strawberries, raisins and nuts-were given away. Los Angeles' Museum of Science and Industry exhibited three sun-powered cars and beanies with solar-powered propellers. By the time the sun had set over the Pacific at 8:23 p.m., Sun Day had boosters coast to coast. Said Maggie Hardy, a coordinator in Los Angeles whose spirits stayed high...