Word: sun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearby fishing villages and are now in their sixties. One exception to this rule is a fellow named Norman who Zewinski befriended a few years ago. "Norman's a little borneo," Zewinski says. "He has the hot rod of the boat fleet, a boat called Red Sun. One night we went into a bar with him and he ordered fifty beers...
...they say it's regressed." It is the beginning of another day in Evanston, Wyo. (pop. 4,848; elevation 6,748 ft.), and while Shepherd talks, the oil and water stains on the cement driveway of the A & A Texaco station are turned to rainbows by the morning sun...
Solar energy may ultimately do much to heat and cool homes and factories, but its large-scale use for electricity is a long way off. Even a highly-some would say unrealistically-optimistic federal study forecasts that solar, wind and wave power and the conversion of sun-grown organic matter into methane would at best meet 20% of all U.S. energy needs...
...pulled into Memphis the city was hot and troubled. Just walking in the sun would leave clothes soaked with perspiration. The hotels and restaurants were overcrowded with pilgrims to Graceland. The policemen and firemen were out on strike, and the National Guard was patrolling the city in jeeps. In Washington, the House Assassinations Committee was hearing testimony on the 1968 slaying in Memphis of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Into Memphis on August 15 rode the Elvis Presley Memorial Bus Tour out of Connecticut and western Massachusetts, uninterested in anything but the visiting hours at Graceland and the lengths...
...arrived outside Graceland the day before the anniversary of Elvis's death, to wait in the sun in a quarter-mile line for hours for a chance to file quickly by Elvis's grave, at the side of his mansion, near his kidney-shaped swimming pool. Along the line volunteers from a county rescue team patrolled, watching for victims of heat exhaustion. And hawkers patrolled, too, selling everything from autographed pictures of The King to silk scarves he wore to color film. Across the street--Elvis Presley Boulevard--there was still more. The shops that have sprung...