Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when words like fission, double-helix, and plutonium are on the tip of every layman's tongue, books about science, or better yet books by scientists, are a sure sell...
...involved, Stacks takes special pleasure in campaign reporting. "Politicians are sometimes silly, sometimes banal, frequently self-serving and occasionally absolutely unbearable," he says. "But they are just as often earnest, serious and creative in proposing solutions to the problems the nation faces. In an election year, there is no better assignment in journalism...
...warmly at an electrical workers union hall by 500 people waving placards (SINK WITH TED: SWIM WITH RON and southie for reagan). Reagan left Massachusetts to Ford without a fight in 1976; he intends to slug it out there this year, even though the hard-working Bush seems much better organized in the state than any other G.O.P. candidate...
...slip away and close the doors and disappear. See how long it would take the people of this country to miss them. I think that life would go on, and the people would keep right on doing the things they are doing, and we would get along a lot better than we think...
...crop, flower resists frost, has a short growing season, and is less affected by drought than wheat. It also has some drawbacks. Says Farmer Tom Sinner, of Casselton, N. Dak.: "You plant flower because it brings a better return than other crops, but weeds and insects just love it." Agronomists fear that repeated plantings of flower on the same stretch of soil will so infest it with insects and diseases that it will become unusable for that crop...