Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harry gets farther West, he seems to shed years like epidermal tissue. Romance, mortality, uncertainty are obstacles he negotiates with increasing nimbleness. Change no longer seems such a threat. Indeed, like the calmly eccentric Los Angeles life, like the California sun itself, it becomes a source of energy...
...sampling of recent front pages saw a re-enactment of an 1830 race between a horse-drawn train and a vintage locomotive given prominent play in the Baltimore Sun. As in 1830, the horse won. Late editions of the Los Angeles Times featured a lead story documenting a less-than-earth-shaking expose of the low standards for scuba-diving instruction, and the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune snagged readers with a seven-column head declaring: FEWER SPECIAL DEER PERMITS AVAILABLE. The Swing is a slightly manic but welcome return to normalcy after a grateful escape from the long hail...
Anderson knew instantly, from the customs man's request, that he was in trouble. He bolted and ran north toward the Canadian border, past hundreds of startled picnickers in the park beneath the arch. Among the spectators was Peter Trask, a reporter for the Vancouver Sun, who recalled later: "He ran right through the center of the arch, hotly pursued by about half a dozen guys in uniform and plainclothes. He must have been 50 ft. at least into Canada when they pounced on him, threw him to the ground, handcuffed him and frogmarched him back into the States...
...During the 1971 debate that led to the cutting off of U.S. Government funds for the supersonic transport, environmentalists had voiced fears that nitrogen oxides in the exhaust of the 1,800-m.p.h. aircraft might weaken the ozone shield that protects the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. The charge was serious, but was it true? The U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find out. After two years of study, M.I.T.'s experimental evidence indicates that the fears of '71 are justified...
...faces, Bond, 36, is ready to give Newport its most competitive race in decades. Mounting the challenge has cost him $9 million, but he figures the money is well spent. The major purpose of Bond's nautical campaign is to promote his projects in Western Australia, particularly Yanchep Sun City, a recreational development near Perth. On that score, says Bond, "we have already won." Almost as an afterthought, he adds: "Only the sporting outcome of the race is left to be determined...