Word: swirles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dawn, the mists of spring float over the rolling green lawns of the village of Hinsdale, 25 miles west of Chicago. Petals from thousands of flowering fruit trees swirl down wide, brick streets and settle in pink drifts around sprawling Victorian houses. The casually wealthy suburb of 15,906 seems safe from any kind of drastic change, especially an energy shock. Says Louis Duncan, Hinsdale's president: "We are individually concerned about energy, but our life-style hasn't changed...
...Dangers. In a grimy arc, from Nebraska through the plains of Kansas and Colorado, on into the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas, scenes right out of The Grapes of Wrath suddenly materialized in the swirl of dust billowing up to 12,000 feet. The grit sifted into houses, causing eyes to burn and coating tongues. As visibility neared zero, motorists pulled to sides of roads, and highways were ordered closed. At week's end the dust had blown over the southeastern states, turning the sky a milky yellow. To many worried Westerners, the worst dust storm in some...
...ballerina of figure skaters, and the superbly athletic star of the New York City Ballet, Edward Villella, 40. To be shown March 2, the show is being filmed in Quebec as part of the city's Winter Carnival. In one spectacular sequence, Hamill and Villella appear to swirl and spin together on the frozen river below Le Cháteau Frontenac. During the filming, Hamill skated alone over mirrorlike black ice; then Villella pirouetted across a translucent sheet of Plexiglas covering the ice. The shots were later combined. The result, Villella says, "is like a dream...
Five weeks later, caught up in the demanding swirl of the transition, he was asked if the job he was taking on occasionally seemed overwhelming. "Yes," answered the President-elect, "but not so much that I would want someone else...
...delivered over to the lions of the capital city, crouched to devour his plainness. Some quake before their own image of a Confederate Cromwell, brassy with power, bent on razing their comfortable habitations down to zero, as the Yankees razed Atlanta in the war. And many beyond the Washington swirl have been convinced that whatever else he is, Jimmy Carter is a man of mystery who will continue to engage the political dramatists for years to come...