Word: crystal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rents' tires, and the superboy helps out his new, adoptive father by lifting up the whole rear of the rig for the wheel change. At school, Clark, as he is called, can kick a football into the next county. When he is 18, he discovers a magic crystal that Jor-El had put in his crib and is able to talk with the spirit of his dead father, who reveals to him that his mission is to battle evil...
Searching for ideas, he happened upon a book of crystal photography, which had exactly the futuristic-looking shapes such a planet might contain. On the screen, Krypton looks like a giant ice palace, an all-white world fit for the advanced, abstract-minded folk the Kryptonians are supposed...
Bill Bradley, 35, was no flashy superstar as a New York Knicks basketball forward. He was no intellectual whiz kid as a Rhodes scholar. But on the court and in college, the son of a Republican banker in Crystal City, Mo., proved steady, persistent?and successful. His political career in New Jersey has begun the same way. In campaigning as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate, Bradley was not eloquent, inspirational or innovative. But he studied the issues, plugged away with a left-of-center pitch and barely stopped to sleep. Aided by his well-known name and voters' distrust...
...whole question sounds very complicated, and no doubt the administration will try to delay and defuse the issue by emphasizing its complexity. In fact, the contradictions are crystal-clear. Manufacturers Hanover's policy is to make, renew and extend loans to the South African government. Harvard has promised to divest itself of bonds in banks that have such a policy. Yet Harvard continues to hold $11 million in Manufacturers Hanover bonds...
...incident was inexplicable until Crystal Gray, who lived in the house in back of Matthews', went to the police and said she apparently was the intended victim. She was one of the witnesses in the murder of Prostitute Kathleen Smith. The assassins had attacked the wrong house...