Word: bushed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only Cabinet member to make a TV speech after Perón's death. Radical leftist Peronists despise the ultra-conservative López Rega and have threatened to assassinate him. Last week, in a warning aimed at him, the leader of the radical leftist Montoneros (bush fighters), Mario Firmenich, condemned "adventurists and unscrupulous persons" who might make plans to take power in "the political vacuum left by General Perón's absence...
...Tarzan, who you? For the next two or three weeks Bobby Kennedy Jr., 20, will be swinging through the Kenya bush. As star and narrator of a forthcoming TV series, The Last Frontier, Bobby plays himself, an American city boy learning how to live in the wilds of Africa. His part demands several dangerous encounters, including a puffadder handling exhibition. So far he has demonstrated his cool by dangling at the end of a rope over the face of a sheer, 250-ft. cliff to inspect a vulture's nest. Then, wearing a bracelet of elephant's hair...
Died. Vannevar Bush, 84, eminent scientist, administrator and humanist; of pneumonia; in Belmont, Mass. In 1922, while a Massachusetts Institute of Technology electrical-engineering professor, Bush with two friends founded the American Appliance Co., now the mammoth Raytheon Co. On campus, he later developed the differential analyzer, an ancestor of the modern computer, then resigned as engineering dean in 1938 to head Washington, D.C.'s Carnegie Institution, a leading research organization. During the war Bush oversaw work on the atomic bomb, radar and other military devices as director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...year-old civilian technician named Stringer, is attached by the terms of a lucrative contract to a special Army unit. His task: to plant sensing devices near an enemy supply trail so that "smart" bombs can home in on military convoys. He knows how to survive in the bush and is not afraid of spiders or the Viet Cong. But his motivation is uncertain, and this earns him the contempt of his partner, a hard-case Regular Army major named Price...
...great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Dnieper. An icy strategist and disciplinarian, he pushed to Berlin, sustaining a million casualties, and returned to Moscow as Russia's savior. Annoyed by Zhukov's celebrity, Stalin downplayed the marshal's achievements and farmed him off to bush-league posts in Odessa and the Urals. The day after Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov was made Deputy Defense Minister, then rose to full Minister and member of the Presidium. After a row with Khrushchev, he was drummed back into obscurity, but resurfaced in the mid-1960s and went...