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Fell says the American Indian civilization in the Southwest was overtaken between A.D. 1100 and 1200 by the "Ab" people. The word "Ab" means "Apache" in modern Pima, one of the tribes which shared the Southwestern culture called Hohokam and spoke in the near-universal tongue of North American at that time--Iberic, Fell said...

Author: By Steven Kargman, | Title: Professor Says Ericson Not the First | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

Queenly Hostess. An estimated 500 million viewers around the globe watched telecasts of the festivities, giving the event a public relations value that delighted even the most republican of Swedes. To them, the wedding was a means of reminding the world of the existence and efficiency of Sverige AB (Sweden Inc.). In fact, Sweden's press long has proclaimed Carl Gustaf the "country's No. 1 p.r. man." The new Queen is almost sure to earn a similar encomium. She is witty and conversant in six languages (including recently acquired Swedish). She has become very popular since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Now, the P. R. Royal Couple | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...pragmatic approach to Egypt's future is quite different from Nasser's inflamed rhetoric and crusading Pan-Arab ideology. For another, Sadat's dramatic foreign policy shift-turning Egypt increasingly toward the West-requires that Nasser's pro-Soviet policies be discredited. In Ab-dou's recent book, for example, Nasser is denounced for "bringing the Russians into the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Two Faces of Nasser | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

There are those who consider the current breast-beating over language too pessimistic. Marshall McLuhan believes it to be "ab solute nonsense" - but then McLuhan is the man who once said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: CAN'T ANYONE HERE SPEAK ENGLISH? | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...freshman year. If you feel your background in math is good, take Math 1 straight off. If you have less than 600 on the math SATs, or did not have a full algebra II and trigonometry course in high school, you should consider Math Ar. AP in the AB Math AP exam leads most appropriately to Math 1b, which should be taken straight off at the beginning of freshman year; and BC Math AP leads most appropriately to Math 20 or 21. Math 21 is less applied and more theoretical than Math 20; both are fine choices. Statistics...

Author: By Fred Fox, | Title: The Future Doctor's Friend | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

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