Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University has distributed tickets for more than the 19,000 available seats in anticipation of no-shows by some ticket-holders, William Anderson, university marshall, said yesterday...
Atlanta's Spelman College harmonized with an apt duet of famous singers as it granted honorary fine arts degrees. One was to Opera Soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs, 53, a Spelman alumna who polished her coloratura with a Marian Anderson Scholarship. The other, fittingly, was awarded the legendary Anderson herself, now 77. Hailed as "the most famous and best loved contralto of our time," Anderson received a standing ovation for her long, path-marking career. Responded she in a brief, upbeat acceptance: "It's all waiting for you out there, and you can make your lives what you want them...
First, and most alarming, is the Price Anderson Act's nuclear power plant liability ceiling of $500 million. This was foisted on us in the 1950s when the public knew next to nothing about the dangers of nuclear power. Since $500 million would never come close to paying for the rupturing and defilement of a region caused by a nuclear exodus of over a million people, the act makes a shambles of our commitment to the principle of just compensation for deprivations of life and property...
...Price Anderson Act undermines the safeguards that a regime of full liability is intended to create. The prospect of liability builds into our conduct a salutary vigilance and solicitousness roughly commensurate to the perceived costs of a lack of vigilance. Under the influence of exaggerated claims of nuclear safety we dismantled the system of liability in precisely that technological sector where the utmost vigilance is needed...
...shots of Ruth and Gehrig, which give this book the quality of a family picture album. The appendix lists the all-time Yankee statistical leaders and provides a game-by-game abstract of DiMaggio's streak and Maris's miracle year. And there's smooth writing throughout, particularly in Anderson's chapter on the DiMaggio years...