Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CARPENTER CENTER LOBBY. Ves 155 Students Designs for the Stage daily 9-10 Sat. 9-6, Sun...
...Trouble Comes to Town, Small-town Southern sheriff Lloyd Bridges adopts a Northern Mack youth, the son of a Korean War buddy who saved his life, in this made-for-television movie about a town on the brink of race war. Directed by Daniel Petric ("A Raisin In the Sun"), CH. 5. 8:30 p.m. Color...
...Norwegian cities of Oslo and Tromsø are only 650 miles and 100 minutes apart. The psychological distance, however, is much greater, for Tromsø lies 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and its 40,000 inhabitants live two months of each year without seeing the sun. In this polar blackness or mørketiden* (murky time), the mentally unstable may slip over the edge into a temporary state of profound mental disturbance. Even those who are emotionally healthy the rest of the year may become unaccountably tense, restless, fearful and preoccupied with thoughts of death and suicide...
From Nov. 25 to Jan. 21, the sun does not rise above the horizon in Tromsø or in the rest of Norway's far north, leaving the region in darkness except for an hour of gloomy twilight at noon. TIME's Oslo correspondent, Dag Christensen, describes the scene at midday: "As the jet speeds northward, you see the moon shining brighter every minute. You glimpse small, isolated settlements, clusters of fishermen's houses along the rugged coast, and little farms at the foot of the towering mountains. As you approach Tromsø the faint, fading twilight...
...people of the north count the days until the sun's reappearance on Soldag (sun day). They plan sun feasts to celebrate, look forward to the closing of schools and offices, and on the great day go to a favorite outdoor spot to watch the sun rise over the horizon. As it makes its appearance, they laugh and clap each other on the back, and some of them shout, "There she is! She's back! She's back...