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Word: fountains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balmy afternoon last week, four tourists from Miami finished a round of golf at the Fountain Valley course, a lavish facility on the northwest coast owned by Laurance and David Rockefeller. As the tourists stood at the outdoor bar, they were startled to see half a dozen men-all wearing military fatigues and masks-burst from a nearby hedge. Suddenly the masked men opened fire with automatic rifles, spraying bullets crazily at everyone in sight. In moments the four Miami tourists were dead and so were three club employees. A fourth, Groundskeeper John Gulliver, 23, moaned again and again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGIN ISLANDS: The Resort Murders | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...brothers leave for the city when they are flooded out, and on the way Macunaima bathes in a magic fountain which turns him white--and into another actor. This white actor goes through several changes of hairstyle, which as far as I can tell have nothing to do with either plot or political significance, and which typify the director's casual attitude to details. During several crowd scenes some of the extras look more interested in the camera than in the antics of Macunaima, and when Macunaima dies, bloodily, in a stream, a rubber hose can dimly be seen pumping...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Macunaima | 7/14/1972 | See Source »

...offered at some 700 universities, junior colleges and adult education centers. Tens of thousands of Viet Nam vets have become serious about photography after buying expensive 35-mm. cameras at big discounts in the Far East. At rock concerts and in youth hangouts from Central Park's Bethesda Fountain to California's Santa Monica beach, there are almost as many camera straps as headbands in evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Polaroid's Big Gamble on Small Cameras | 6/26/1972 | See Source »

...reading: "Develop a thirst for printer's ink and quench it by reading, for from books flows the fountain of youth found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Very Few Words | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

Until recently a visitor to the track locker room in Dillon Field House could marvel at the hardware in the trophy case by the water fountain. But space in the case has been slowly increasing recently. In Philadelphia on Saturday the Heptagonal team trophy, one that used to adorn Harvard's case regularly, remained in Penn's possession for the second straight year...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Penn Wins Heptagonal Title; Crimson Thinclads Place 7th | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

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