Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stories on the choice of a Pope and on the presidential prospects of Ted Kennedy [Aug. 21] provide an ironic contrast. For Pope, there is a bewildering array of choices of men of proven ability and unblemished record, so that it is hard to pick a front runner. But for President, there seem to be few options. Ted Kennedy appears to be far and away the front runner. Yet he has little or no executive or military experience. His best friends would not maintain that he is of outstanding intellect or character, and his blemished past is a source...
...called Very Large Array, a monstrous 48 km by 32 km (30 miles by 20 miles) Y-shaped radio telescope, consisting of 27 individual dish-shaped antennas, that is now about half completed in New Mexico. It is designed to probe deep into distant quasars, which may be powered by black holes...
...larger than ever, flea markets still allow anyone with an eye to sharp trading to go into business almost instantly. All a would-be proprietor has to do is rent a modest stall or table, for $4 to $20 a day. Then the fun begins: people display an incredible array of items pulled from closets, attics, gardens, in-laws and, only occasionally, outlaws. With an eye for hot merchandise, police sometimes patrol the bigger markets, but the difficulty of making positive identifications means that there is often little they can do to knock down any fences...
Another proposal, originated by Farmington Hills Insurance Executive Richard Headlee, a former director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is backed by an array of conservative businessmen, Senator Robert Griffin and Economist Milton Friedman and has already received 415,000 signatures. Headlee's proposal would hold the combination of state and local taxes to the current figure: 9.7% of total personal Michigan income...
...called It Didn't Start with Watergate, the muckraking conservative journalist Victor Lasky detailed prior presidential offenses-what he says were Franklin Roosevelt's uses of the FBI to dig up scandal on his enemies and to tap the home phones of his top advisers, the spectacular array of extramarital affairs that Jack Kennedy paraded through Camelot, the Kennedy wiretaps on Martin Luther King Jr., and so on. Why was only Nixon driven from office for his offenses when he had such precedents for misbehavior? The three articles of impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee were specific...