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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week investigations were under way by the Interior Department, congressional committees and Idaho authorities to determine the cause of the June 5 disaster, which unleashed 80 billion gallons of water, killed at least nine people, injured more than a thousand, inundated 400,000 acres, devastated several communities, and caused more than $1 billion in damage. Did the Teton rupture represent some weakness inherent in earth-fill dams? Probably not; in the past three decades there have been no significant problems with the other 250 such dams erected by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Was there some failing peculiar...
...rightists. Syrian President Hafez Assad has been seeking a peace that would enable Christian and Moslem Lebanese to continue sharing political power; this would make it unlikely that a radical state would emerge on Syria's western frontier. This led Assad, earlier in the year, to send several thousand Syrian-led Saiqa fedayeen into Lebanon to bolster the Christian minority. Last week's action was a more daring move, for although a number of Syrian regulars have been disguised as Saiqa, and others have been based just inside the border, no regular forces of any outside power...
...started its own recording and production company, Apple Records, which was also meant to serve as a kind of Ford Foundation for the counterculture. The place attracted all sorts of daytrippers, rip-off artists and weirdos. "People were robbing us and living off us," Lennon comments. "Eighteen or 20 thousand pounds a week was rolling out of Apple and nobody was doing anything about...
...trucks carrying the big tent had broken down, and by the time they rolled into downtown Burbank, only five hours remained before show time. Members of all 22 acts ran to help out: clowns, barkers, aerialists, animal trainers, tightrope walkers, acrobats, and Colonel Wallace Ross and his elephants ("ninety-thousand pounds of pachyderms"). Local kids were joining in, lured by the promise of free tickets...
...allow a fifty cent paperback with pictures to replace them. His hook shot, as he diagrammed it, evolved in nine parts; he exercised his peripheral vision by identifying trees across the street while walking along looking straight ahead; he went through the five phases of his foul shot a thousand times a day. Behind all this lay the key, the three D's; Determination, Dedication, and Defense, because success is 1 per cent innpiration and 99 per cent perspiration. One can imagine streetball players bent double, clapping their Chuck Taylors in laughter if they ever heard of or read...