Word: bleaknesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least $75 a month; that was sufficient in the late 1940s. Today's veteran receives $220 a month to cover tuition, books, fees and living expenses. Only for veterans at low-tuition state and community colleges is that amount even close to adequate. "The picture is bleak," says Maryland Senator Charles Mathias Jr., who has co-authored a bill that would raise the allowance to $250 and cover up to $600 in annual costs for tuition after the first $400. But even that increase is uncertain of Senate passage. Despite President Nixon's statement last March that "words...
...nation illustrates the bleak prospects so strikingly as India, which some what ironically has long been an ear nest champion of the Arabs' political cause. India's newest five-year plan, which calls for government and pri vate investment of $71 billion in industrialization, assumes that the price of oil will rise only to $4.75 per bbl. by 1979, the last year of the plan. In fact, the price already has shot up to $9 per bbl. Oil imports had been taking 10% to 11% of the foreign currency that India earns from exports; now the bill...
More entertaining is a lengthy chart showing what was happening in the other, dreary world while Dickens was working on his livelier one. While he wrote Bleak House in 1852, for example, the Duke of Wellington was dying and Wells Fargo & Co. was being founded in the U.S. There is also a listing of virtually every character Dickens created (more than 2,000, if you are counting), down to the likes of Dick, Tim Linkinwater's blind blackbird in Nicholas Nickleby. Dickens' genius for names needs no underscoring, but to see so many of them together...
...comet's tail just as war broke out between England and France. The vapors had so beneficent an effect that the combatants fell asleep for three hours, awoke to a world without war and began building a Utopia of socialism and love. In contrast, there is the bleak view of Psychologist turned Amateur Geophysicist Immanuel Velikovsky. In his bestselling 1950 book Worlds in Collision-which is regarded as gospel by many mystics but as science fiction by most scientists-Velikov-sky blamed a near miss by a comet for such biblical events as the parting...
Still another solar-system explorer, Pioneer 10, last week briefly eclipsed even the growing excitement over Comet Kohoutek. Completing a 21-month voyage across the bleak, cold reaches of more than half a billion miles of space, the 570-lb. robot gave man his first close-up look at the giant planet Jupiter. After penetrating intense radiation belts that pack radiation dosages at least 1,000 times the level regarded as lethal for humans, Pioneer passed just 81,000 miles above the multicolored Jovian cloud tops, took color pictures, gathered oth er data and then was hurled by the enormous...