Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Before that, it had been a week of tributes. Radio stations from New Orleans to Boston cleared the air waves for Lennon and Beatles retrospectives. In Los Angeles, more than 2,000 people joined in a candlelight vigil at Century City; in Washington, D.C., several hundred crowded the steps of...
The early signs are not encouraging. Towns across the Rockies are suffering from what Psychologist Eldean V. Kohrs has called the "Gillette syndrome," named after a once bucolic ranching town in northeastern Wyoming. As oil and coal developers moved in to exploit what lay underneath Gillette, the town ballooned from...
Exxon is reconsidering the scope of its plans, but the development already taking place in western Colorado is leaving its mark. In Craig, which has doubled to 8,000 since 1975, businessmen boast of the new mall with 26 stores; clapboard houses that sold for $30,000 in 1974 now...
Many on the upper floors fled to the hotel's roof, while those still stranded in their rooms crowded onto balconies screaming for help. Others, seeking fresh air, shattered windows with pieces of furniture. "There was a lot of smoke in the hallway, and you had no idea how...
Adding to Moscow's discomfiture was a surge of human rights activism directly inspired by the Madrid conference. Some 8,000 scientists from 44 non-Communist countries broke relations with Soviet scientific organizations to protest the persecution of Soviet colleagues. In seven Soviet cities, 139 Jewish dissidents began a...