Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Album covers line the near wall. The Electric Prunes, Surrealistic Pillow, Fresh Cream, The Grateful Dead--all call out in glaring psychedelic script. Yet there was something in that ancient face of 36 years, smiling weakly in the shadows, that recalls a younger, simpler time...
...Also, the maximum information should be made public on the relations of Harvard's various departments to the government. These connections call into question the integrity and independence of the University...
...Ahmanson's lucrative combination of S. & L.s and insurance prompted Justice Department antitrusters to investigate his operations, but the inquiry was soon dropped. "They call Uncle Howard an octopus," said his nephew and business associate, Bill Ahmanson, a few years ago. "But the worst that can be said about Unc is that he lives to build capital and to run his own show...
...research staff. Their book, relentlessly technical and deliberately undramatic, is as far removed from Jules Vernean fantasy as sober analytical methodology can carry it. Kahn and Wiener cannot unlock the future's doors, but they know where to knock. 50 in the Club. The authors develop what they call "scenarios," or hypothetical future trends, which are projected in every conceivable direction from the known past and present. The result is a multiple hypothesis of the future that seeks to accommodate every plausible possibility-some more plausible than others...
Translation by the author: "Each [man named] Gille, while hoeing, uncovers a mole and part of a seed. Quickly finished, I call to the limping man that every pitcher has a crack in it. Is it a Chinese cabbage...