Word: cannoneering
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...students. "In view of their situation," she says, "they need every encouragement." Together with the late Nobel laureate in physics Maria Goeppert Mayer-who died last month-she has also been pressuring the university to hire more women. A few months ago, she unexpectedly rejected the distinguished Annie J. Cannon Prize, given by the American Astronomical Society for notable work by women in astronomy. "Because of the small number of women in the field," she told the society, it would "not be surprising if we all in our turn are selected for the prize...
...have had difficulty getting local students to work hard for their man. "I think these kids are into not being radical now," explains Frances Bennotti, a McGovern worker manning a campus campaign table in Durham. Nor does the issue necessarily hurt Nixon. Dick Allison, a tram conductor at the Cannon Mountain ski area, lost a cousin in Viet Nam. He considers the war a tragic mistake, but defends the Administration's pace of withdrawal. "I don't like just walking out now," he says...
Radford, Va. (pop. 11,596), might have qualified as the noisiest place in America last week. Blank-loaded shotguns roared, a carbide cannon thundered, and a mobile loudspeaker shrilled the panicky distress cry of the starling. The point was to scare a flock of some 150,000 stubborn starlings out of town. It was a measure born of desperation-a sort of real-life reply to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds...
...demanded that Harvard abolish its ROTC program by breaking all existing contracts with the Department of Defense and not entering into any new ones. It seemed not unreasonable to ask that Harvard refuse to allow the American military to train its students to murder Indochinese with rifles and cannon and bombs. We won a victory against ROTC. Col. Pell packed up and went back to the Pentagon; Shannon Hall is now a day-care center...
...something explosive," said Wald. "Terrific! Bang! Cannon...