Word: alvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Armed Joys. Why? The main reason is that San Franciscans are tired of being visually bullied. An anti-tower coalition of citizens and conservationists argued that the 550-ft.-high structure would obliterate vistas and harm the city's still intimate scale. Dress Manufacturer Alvin Duskin took an ad to warn that San Francisco would soon be "like New York and Chicago, where life has all the joys of the bottom of an elevator shaft-a crowded elevator shaft where everybody has guns...
When the research submarine Alvin sank in the Atlantic off Woods Hole, Mass., in 1968, its three crew members managed to scramble to safety. But their box lunches went to the bottom with Alvin-5,000 feet down. Those uneaten meals, it was revealed in Science last week, eventually provided researchers with valuable new information about the workings of life processes in the ocean depths...
...Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean of the Medical School for Student Affairs and director of the school's minority recruitment program, also was skeptical about the Nixon plan...
...black and I'm proud," and Negro adults send cards like the one that shows a little black girl exclaiming "It's your birthday! I'm just tickled black." Expressions of pride are a good thing when they are genuine, say black Psychiatrists Alvin Poussaint of Harvard and James Comer of Yale. But, they caution in the current Redbook, rote teaching of black-dignity slogans may foster not pride but self-hatred...
...West legally responsible for Smith's death? Hardly. In the eyes of the law, the proper defendants in the killing were the victim's buddies−not only the wounded Daniels, but also Alvin Taylor, who, according to police, was sitting outside in the getaway...