Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meantime, research at the Center goes on, and the universe continues to expand. If you want to know what is happening in the sky this week, you can call the Center's Dial-a-Satellite phone...
...aftermath of the election, Ved Mahta, an Indian journalist, wrote in the New Yorker that a dictator should never call elections unless he has taken care to rig the results. But Gandhi miscalculated in calling for parliamentary elections. Now India has 81-year-old Morarji Desai as Prime Minister, and Gandhi returns to private life after 11 years in power...
...packed with intricate warning devices?one now sounds the alarm if the proper wing flaps are not extended on takeoff?and every major control system has backups in case it should fail. Pilots wax eloquent about the aircraft they fondly call "Fat Albert." Says one Delta captain: "Old Albert is straightforward and honest on the ground and in the air. I've got about 200,000 Ibs. of thrust on four little levers. You've got to be careful because you can blow a hangar off the ground. Another thing, you've got 350 tons of momentum when...
...rare show of unity, however, nine opposition parties formed a coalition called the Pakistan National Alliance, which Bhutto contemptuously dismissed as "nine cats tied together by their tails." But the campaign-only the third since Pakistan became idependent in 1947-turned into an unexpectedly fierce contest. Just before the balloting on March 7, independent observers described the struggle between Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and the National Alliance as too close to call -and they now believe that in a fair contest, the alliance might have...
...been claimed by the Wampanoags in Massachusetts, the Pequots and Schaghticokes in Connecticut, the Narragansetts in Rhode Island, the Oneidas in New York. The Catawbas of South Carolina contend they are entitled to 144,000 acres that embrace the cities of Rock Hill and Fort Mill. The roll call of litigant tribes is like a Whitmanesque iteration: Miccosukee, Sioux, Cheyenne, Chippewa. Seven Oklahoma tribes-Kaw, Ponca, Tonkawa, Pawnee, Otoe, Osage, Creek-are shaping up a suit to assert a collective claim to the bed-and attendant water rights-of the Arkansas River. Of hundreds of controversies, however, most turn...