Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Atlantic Treaty Organization received a thorough physical and psychological checkup last week and was found to be less than robust at age 30. The general diagnosis: flabby nuclear muscle and a creeping inferiority complex. The prognosis: satisfactory recovery only if it undertakes strenuous, and expensive, new body building...
...story, Phil Niekro Sr. was the first one to throw the knuckleball. He used the pitch to confound batters on the amateur baseball teams around the coal mines of Ohio and West Virginia where he worked. Later, he taught it to his elder son Phil, who by the age of eight could dig his fingertips into the ball and send it floating without spin toward the strike zone, dipping and zigzagging in the air currents. Younger Son Joe tried the pitch, but his hands were too small, so he concentrated on the conventional pitcher's repertory of fastball, curve...
Financial relations between the federal government and private universities operate on the age-old "buddy system." Down the road at M.I.T. where bespectacled scientists sit in cavernous laboratories and dream up new missile and radar systems, the Defense Department, not surprisingly, is in charge. Out in the Midwest, where soft-spoken graduate students plant hybrid crops and try to improve harvest yields, big brother is the Department of Agriculture. And here at Harvard, where the lion's share of federal funds is funnelled into medical research, people report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...specific regulations the rent control board will use to implement that ordinance are still being drafted, but they will enable tenants faced with eviction to argue that Cambridge's housing emergency--the acute shortage of rental housing in the city--and hardship--age, income level, length of stay in the apartment and in Cambridge, and ability to find a new home--should be considered before they are evicted...
...that the police are happy with Harvard. The age-old gripes persist, but they are mostly issues that confront all the 1000 or so unionized Harvard employees, and they are hardly ever solved at the bargaining table. The police union has yet to meet to discuss the demands they will present Harvard when their contract expires December 31, but job security will undoubtedly be one of their major bargaining points. In the last nine years the number of uniformed policemen has declined from 60 to 41 as the force has taken on a more administrative and computer-oriented style...