Word: ac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar problem--defense--may plague the Crimson. With standout blueliner Jackie Hughes off trying to land a spot with the touring U.S. Olympic troupe and sophomore Mitch Olsen out on ac pro, inexperience will hamper attempts at a fast start. Mere freshmen--Scott Sangster and Mark Fusco--join juniors Carter and Bobby Fowkes to form the top two pairings: and although the first-year men look impressive in practice, they're not Hughes and Olsen--not yet, anyway...
...facts of hemisphere life when the President visited Mexico City in February, tongue-lashing his guest for treating Mexico with "a mixture of interests, disdain and fear." Caught off guard by that undiplomatic verbal assault, Carter responded with one of the more unfortunate utterings of his presidency, a rambling ac count of how, on a previous visit, he had been afflicted by "Montezuma's revenge...
SITING. A Ford Foundation-sponsored study indicates that a nuclear ac cident at a poorly chosen site-one close to a heavily populated area or at a location where winds would carry radioactive particles toward big cities-would cause 1,000 times more damage to life and property than a mishap at a more remote spot...
...President Anwar Sadat to invite himself to Cairo, Carter was on the banks of the Nile. It was a daring attempt to use the prestige of the U.S. presidency to end the months-long stalemate blocking an Egyptian-Israeli peace settlement. Even though the search for a Middle East ac cord has claimed more of the President's time than any other issue, last week's jour ney, in the words of Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan, demonstrated Carter's willingness to go "the final, extra mile." The goal, of course, was momentous: an end to more than 30 years...
...technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks an AC adapter to help preserve batteries and as a game is not quite as interesting (because ships can't be placed on diagonals) as the traditional paper-and-pencil battleship game...