Word: allenated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...billion. Only 4.6 miles have actually been opened out of a total of 99.8 miles, and the completion date for all lines is now 1982. At last Saturday's opening, thousands of Washingtonians waited up to two hours to ride the trains (left). One young New Yorker, Paula Allen, liked the Metro better than her own subway: "It's cleaner, nicer. There's no graffiti...
...controversy flared anew when Allen Weinstein, a respected historian from Smith College who had tended to believe Hiss innocent, did a complete turnabout. After examining 15,376 pages of FBI files that he had pried loose in a Freedom of Information suit last year and additional papers that Hiss instructed his lawyers to make available, Weinstein declared: "Hiss has been lying about his relations with Chambers for nearly 30 years . . . Others who once believed in Alger Hiss may now be persuaded that he stole the documents in question and that Whittaker Chambers told the truth...
...committee of 20 prominent businessmen, including Charles F. Adams, chairman of the board of Raytheon Company, Joseph P. Downer, executive vice president of the Atlantic Richfield Co., Allen E. Puckett, vice president of Hughes Aircraft Co., and Donald H. McLaughlin, chairman of the Executive Committee of Homestake Mining Company, have formed the national committee to raise money for the center which will utilize their extensive contacts in the business community...
...rise to the position of spokesman for the school of behavioristic psychology. The book does have its personable side, for Skinner doesn't balk at recounting more commonplace exploits that we can sympathize with: for example, his bumbling adolescent sexual adventures, reminiscent of those of Holden Cauldfield and Woody Allen. But although ordered, it is not cohesive, and appeals mainly to a circle of dedicated admirers curious about this "queer bird's" personal history and feelings about himself. The episodic sit-on-my-knee-grandson-and-I'll-tell-you-a-story style might well put the general reader...
...School prides itself on its quickness to spot trends. When Watergate broke out, officials cobbled together a Crisis in Government course taught by Eugene McCarthy and Law Professors Raoul Berger and Philip Kurland. The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer match in 1972 prompted a sellout course on chess strategy. Says Allen Austill, dean of the school: "It's education in the marketplace. We can jump at things that look good. If they fade, they fade...