Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crude homemade press in Warsaw last week rolled 1,000 copies of Poland's newest underground journal Glos (Voice). The issue should quickly become a collector's item. Tucked in among articles on philosophy and international affairs was a seven-page manifesto that constituted the boldest challenge to Poland's Communist regime since food strikes and riots paralyzed the nation in 1976. It may be one of the most important political documents to surface in Eastern Europe since the near revolution of October...
...sociobiologists, Trivers has been the boldest in applying the gene-based view to humans. In part, that accounts for his rise?in just ten years ?from an author of children's texts to a biology guru at age 34. The son of a Foreign Service officer, Trivers entered Harvard on a scholarship in 1961 to study math and prepare for a career as a civil rights lawyer. He was a bright, moody, private person who turned up at all the civil rights demonstrations and student protests. But his marks were so mediocre ("I was more interested in chasing women...
...Manhattan, pregnant, frightened and perilously low on funds. She endures trials that would break a lesser spirit. Finally, thanks to her beguiling charm, brains ("The bankers could not keep up with me ") and beauty, she achieves a success no other woman has ever attained-she becomes Broadway's boldest angel (a $57,000 investment in Hair brings a $2 million gain) and its hottest producer. And guess what? On the side, she concocts fantastic business deals that bring riches to her friends and show-biz backers-and yes, even to that little secretary who entrusted her life savings...
Each day in the U.S., an average of 130 people die in auto accidents-the equivalent of a major air crash every 48 hours. Last week the Government took its boldest step yet in trying to reduce the carnage. Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams ordered automakers to begin installing air bags or other "passive restraint" safety devices on big cars by the 1982 model-year and on all cars by 1984. Said Adams: "Too many people have needlessly been injured or killed in crashes where passive restraints could have saved them. I cannot in good conscience be a party...
...boldest person in the world. In fact, I'm fairly retiring," says Lady Bird Johnson. Yet in 1964, campaigning for Lyndon, the First Lady once made 47 speeches in four days on a whistle-stop tour of the South. Back on the hustings in Virginia, Lady Bird, 64, is again gamely speaking at luncheons and asking audiences to ante up contributions at fund raisers. Her message: "I don't presume to tell Virginians about Virginia politics, but I do know Chuck Robb." Robb, 37, her lawyer son-in-law, is after the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor...