Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bill Green will also pick up a sure five points for the men from Old Nassau in the dive, though Pete Alter and John Friedman should grab second and third for Harvard...
Kennedy's findings should alter most theories about the thermal history of the earth, and help scientists learn more about how heat escapes from the earth's interior. In addition, the formula final ly establishes a correct relationship be tween a substance in its solid and liquid states, besides offering a new approach to studies of the melting process. In retrospect, Kennedy's discovery might seem obvious, but the startling truth is that generations of scientists overlooked it. "The profession must be full of asses," says Nobel Prize Chemist Willard Libby, discoverer of the carbon-14 dating...
Superficial Irritant. A few militant Negroes resent any attempt to alter their speech habits. Negro Writer Le-Roi Jones asks: "What's wrong with our black tongue now?" Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore argues that "my dialect never hurt me-and no one tries to change the Irish, Italians or French who have dialects." Author Langston Hughes backhandedly praises the "old shoe" approach as "bordering on the poetic...
THUNDERBALL. Sean Connery's alter ego, James Bond, is back with a treasury of wishfulfillment and a nickel's worth of plot, something about a couple of stolen atomic bombs...
While he is away from Burbank, the man who tends the headquarters shop is Executive Vice President A. Carl Kotchian, 51, a onetime Price Waterhouse accountant who is virtually Haughton's alter ego. And then there is Lockheed's biggest intangible asset, Vice President (for Advanced Projects) Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson, a $114,507-a-year (including bonuses) design genius who bosses the Burbank "skunk works," where Lockheed keeps its surprises a secret. Broadnosed, with piercing blue eyes and a bubbling humor, Johnson resembles a sober W. C. Fields. He decided to become a plane builder at twelve...