Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struck a recently frazzled but lighly entertained nerve in this traveler with "Flying the Crowded Skies" [Aug. 14]. As a project evaluator for the Federal Government, I spent five weeks during June and July plying the heavens on various airlines. After logging about 9,200 as-the-crow-flies miles, eating God knows what with someone's elbow stuck in my ear and being kicked by an unruly child on the other side, one might think I would never want to fly again. But give me a few weeks to adjust my wobbly knees and popping ears to terrestrial...
...reject Lance Morrow's premise and conclusions [Aug. 7]: those who voted for Proposition 13 have a duty in the Judaeo-Christian tradition to volunteer services to others or otherwise be seen as "narcissistic" pillow plumpers...
...Right Thing for America" [Aug. 14]? I doubt it. It seems to me that lifting the embargo while Turkish troops are still on the island of Cyprus introduces a new and very dangerous dimension to the making of U.S. foreign policy: piracy when conducted by allies is not only excusable but also worth rewarding in U.S taxpayers' money...
...government of Czechoslovak President Gustav Husak, who succeeded Dubček as party boss eight months after the invasion, was indeed a little nervous as the Aug. 20 anniversary approached. All police leaves were canceled. Trusted Communist cadres in the Workers' Militia were assigned weekend guard duty in factories across the country. As is the custom, the estimated 70,000 to 80,000 Soviet troops who remain bivouacked in Czechoslovakia continued to make themselves scarce, as they have since...
DEATH REVEALED. James Gould Cozzens, 74. successful, cerebral American novelist whose Guard of Honor, the story of a young World War II general faced with a problem of racial discrimination, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949; of pneumonia; on Aug. 9, in Stuart, Fla. After his first novel, Confusion, was published, Cozzens dropped out of Harvard, wrote one more novel, then married a New York literary agent and settled into a life of seclusion and unremitting hard work. In the 13 books that followed he fashioned a stark vision of life, and sometimes a clinical view of love, against meticulously...