Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Frenchmen regard a leftist victory in the March parliamentary elections as a welcome breath of spring rather than a fearful typhoon. A survey appearing in the newsmagazine Le Point this week shows that 52% of the electorate would vote for the leftist parties as against 44% for the center-right. One top Gaullist leader even believes that the left might well reach 55% by election time. If that happens, Socialist Leader Francois Mitterrand would almost certainly become Premier-and France would face the possibility of having Communists in Cabinet posts for the first time in 30 years...
...Costa Rica's seventh peaceful presidential race in the past 25 years, an underdog candidate scored a stunning upset against the dominant party. San Jose Economist Rodrigo Carazo, 51, running under the banner of the center-left Unity Party, managed to snare a shade more than 50% of the 755,000 votes cast; he edged out Luis Alberto Monge, the candi date of the long-ruling National Liberation Party, who got just under...
...Mountie met seven times with Vartanian, with other Russians involved in arranging the rendezvous; some provided transportation, while others posted cryptic signals. One method was to stick tapes to a pillar in an Ottawa shopping center. According to written instructions given the Mountie, "Vertical position of tape-operation takes place in Montreal. Horizontal position-operation takes place in Ottawa. Yellow color-call for the regular meeting. Black color-call for instant meeting...
Letters will not so easily go astray. It will be safer to walk the streets because people will not need to carry large amounts of cash; virtually all financial transactions will be conducted by computer. In the microelectronic global village, the home will again be the center of society, as it was before the Industrial Revolution...
...computer's benign influence extends to the handicapped. The tremendously arduous process of turning print into Braille for the blind has become a relatively simple mechanical routine. In April, Telesensory Systems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., will start marketing a game center consisting of eight games for the unsighted; oscillating tones will replace the screen markings for contests like paddle ball; and synthesized speech will be used for other games such as tic-tac-toe, blackjack and skeet shoot...