Word: alteration
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Yorty has installed a Spanish-speaking complaint bureau in city hall, Los Angeles' government is still overwhelmingly Anglo in makeup. Last week, Bravo and one of his Angeleno protégés, Valley State College Historian Julian Nava, 39, were making the first major effort to alter that situation. Running with Bravo's backing for the nonpartisan school board, Nava-the son of an indigent harp maker and winner of a Bravo scholarship loan to finish Harvard-was coursing the city in his green Volkswagen in a catalytic campaign against Incumbent Charles Reed Smoot...
...unmanned spacecraft on missions to Mars and Venus will have to endure: dry-heat sterilization to prevent the contamination of other planets by earthly microorganisms. The terrestrial bugs can do little harm on the lifeless moon, but experts agree that their premature arrival on other planets could obliterate or alter possible native life forms before they could be studied. There is a growing feeling, nonetheless, that the U.S. may have accepted international sterilization standards that are unnecessarily high...
...more commonly used for sunglasses. Manhattan's Earl Reiback, 31, a onetime nuclear engineer, even has fun in taking an object-one of six different nudes-and then modulating the image into total abstraction. To accomplish this, he built his Luminage Projector from two standard Buhl "Carrousel" projectors, altering their machinery so that a full complement of 160 slides would modulate gradually, "sensuously," in one continuous cycle. To achieve his abstract patterns, he painted the slides with transparent chemicals, then aimed a laser beam at some, bombarded others with gamma rays in a reactor to alter their stress patterns...
Minding the nets, however, are two inexperienced sophomores, Mike McMahon and Roger Bolletin, neither of whom has shown so far that he is able to come close to the play of last year's great goaltender, Pick Alter. Should the Crimson be able to mount as strong an attack as they did last weekend, in the 10-8 loss to Cornell, the cream of the Ivies, they just might snap their two-season league losing streak this afternoon...
...mark a qualitative shift in the war because: 1) it must lead almost inevitably to general Asian land war, since it seems unlikely that the North Vietnamese will back down or, in turn, that the Chinese will permit the U.S. to destroy the North: 2)it will thus fundamentally alter the possibilities for political organization in this country by destroying the limited war mythology which has been the basis for the liberal peace movement. As many more millions of people feel the direct life and death consequences of the war, there will arise a wartime atmosphere of crisis and political...