Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...character building." He admitted that, under pressure, he had told his captors everything he knew. But it was "ancient history" without much importance. He is not planning to write a book unless a publisher is interested in "500 empty pages. Life in a Chinese prison is a crashing bore...
...demonstrators, carrying a coffin which bore the A&P insignia, paraded through the Union and around the Yard. A flag bearing the inscription "Long Live the [UFW] Strike" led the procession, while a makeshift band played "Taps" and various other funeral marches...
...walked past Whangpoo Park, which until 1928 bore the sign, NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED. The main part of Chung Shan Road pulsates with exercisers: sword dancers, slow-motion shadowboxers practicing the ancient art of tai chi chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only...
...magnetometer readings and the disturbance of electronic systems-all reported to TIME by a team member. The research subjects had also demonstrated remarkable perceptual skills, including telepathy. Working further with these men, Targ suggested, would enable SRI to understand psychical phenomena. Written on SRI stationery, the letter also bore the names of the other members of the investigating team: SRI Physicist Harold Puthoff, Kent State University Physics Professor William Franklin and former Astronaut Edgar Mitchell...
Planners are presently considering three separate proposals for the extension. All three include the 800-foot first-leg tunnel under Mount Auburn Street and deep-bore tunneling under the Radcliffe Quad...