Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stick, and no one seemed to mind, except two businessmen who were prattling in German and clutching their briefcases as if they were holding babies to the bosom. And I caught a whif too many, and I feel asleep, and I woke up with this feeling, with this powerful sun streaming through the bus window, magnified onto my skull, popping beads of sweat from my pores, soaking my clothes....., loathsome feeling...
...beach bummers." Daytona Beach knows it well. They have a highway flowing right through the middle of Daytona Beach, it goes all the way to route 95, a cavalcade of yellow, scarlet, pink and sublime green cars. No maroon volvos here--just bright Corvettes, and bright Mustangs, and bright Sun Bugs, and bright Trans Ams. And hot dog stands. Most of the hot dog stands on Daytona Beach have American flags and mustard and relish, enough mustard and relish and beer and roller coasters to make America nauseous for years. There was the story of the artist who visited Daytona...
Outdoor rollerskating also profits from the summer weather, whereas ice skating is restricted to cold rinks or even more frigid ponds. A rollerskater can enjoy the sun and the freedom of the streets, or he can skate at night--when the roads are all deserted...
Carter has long been a fan of solar energy. His inauguration stand was partly heated by the sun's rays, and on Sun Day last year he called for a "dawning of the second solar age." The Administration's new program is by no means the large-scale and probably wasteful crash effort advocated by solar enthusiasts at the Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency. But it does call for $646 million to be spent on research in fiscal 1980. The program would be funded in part by revenues from the windfall...
...Brazilian reporters escaped a mortar attack on the guerrilla-held town of Leon. In Managua last week, TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich and three other reporters were caught in an artillery bombardment as they attempted to keep a rendezvous with Sandinista leaders. Says the Baltimore Sun's Gilbert Lewthwaite: "It's Russian roulette. Everybody is trigger happy. You don't know where your enemy is or whom they're firing...