Word: brookes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week he added to his roles of President, Premier and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces the title of Military Governor General of Egypt. As such, he can proclaim martial law at will. The move seemed a clear warning that Sadat is in a tougher mood and will brook no more demonstrations by students or other dissidents...
Core groups of radical economists are currently clustered at American University in Washington, the New School of Social Research in New York City and the State University of New York at Stoney Brook. In 1969, when Harvard had five radical economists on its faculty, it was considered the school with the best potential for development in this field
Died. Robert Cushman Murphy, 85, expert on oceanic birds and sea-life conservation; in Stony Brook, Long Island. In 1912 Murphy shipped aboard an Antarctic whaler as assistant navigator, and brought back bird, plant and fish specimens never before seen in the U.S. Among the discoveries of his 61-year career were the skeleton of the New Zealand moa, a flightless bird of centuries ago, and the cahow, a sea bird believed to have been extinct since the 17th century. As bird curator at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, he sailed on more than a dozen ocean...
...million "joint venture" of the Cambridge Electric Light Company and the Boston Edison Company would establish a bulk energy receiving station on the former location of the Fresh Pond drive-in theater on Alewife Brook Parkway...
...whole shooting match will go down the drain unless Torrijos and Tack [Juan Tack, Panama's foreign minister] stop acting like fire-breathing monsters," said an Administration official last week. "They've been taking courses from Castro, and sure as the sun rises the Congress will not brook that stuff...