Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they travel light, somewhat like the turn-of-the-century Russian anarchists called bezmo-tivniki (motiveless ones). Says Martin Greiffenhagen, a political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary theory nor strategy." The American radicals who blew up the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin seven years ago had Viet Nam for a rationale. The West German terrorists, who command no support in the working class, have only a vague feeling of solidarity with the Third World and a homicidal hatred of their own country...
Oster Kitchen Center ($150). American. Performs all processor functions, but is somewhat cumbersome and takes a lot of counter and storage space...
...latest blow has been the extraordinary success of the Walt Disney World theme park and entertainment center at Orlando, 240 miles to the north. The 27,400-acre complex, which opened in 1971, sports three Disney hotels, with an occupancy rate of about 97%, three golf courses and assorted attractions that make it, according to its owners, the No. 1 tourist destination in the world. More than 13 million visitors came in 1976, and attendance in this year's fourth quarter is up 7.4% over a year ago. Moreover, the Disney complex, which grossed almost $255 million last year...
...Business, Manhattan in recent years has not been an isle of joy. Many corporations have fled New York City; few have had the faith or the funds to build there. Thus the opening of the new $150 million Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan was an event in itself. More important to New Yorkers and tourists is that the skyscraper gives a stunningly imaginative new accent to the skyline -and, at ground level, is one of the world's few megabuildings that actually appear hospitable to human beings...
...Almost from its beginnings, Citicorp Center was envisioned as a place to shop and savor and feast at all hours, an In spot in the inner city. To Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, it will be "a living, positive part of the neighborhood, 24 hours a day, for decades to come. We would like to think of the Citicorp Center as the cornerstone of a new New York...