Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another head-to-head encounter between the two camps last week, the Carter side scored a clear victory. At the Los Angeles Civic Center, snacking bystanders at an International Chili Society contest chose Rosalynn Carter's tangy recipe by a 4-to-1 margin over Betty Ford's. The Ford offering was rejected as too bland...
Political scientists are disturbed by the steady voter decline since 1960. "We're building a huge vacuum at the center of our political system," says Walter Dean Burnham of M.I.T. He compares our 1972 turnout of 55% with Sweden's 90% and West Germany's 91%. Says Burnham: "Low turnout leads to special-interest voting. A small disciplined group can swing an election." Pollster Hart, in a major study of nonvoters published last month, was alarmed to find that young voters are not moving into the political process. "They're like a lost generation that doesn...
...initial focus of last week's campaign against the radicals was in Shanghai, which until recently had been their power center. Visitors to the city reported seeing giant caricatures of Chiang Ch'ing and the other purged officials; they were depicted as the four heads of a huge snake that hung from an enormous hammer held aloft by a worker and, at the same time, was being fried in a gigantic...
Increased use of the cyclotron by the Massachusetts General Hospital for cancer treatments has raised radiation levels to the point where the Harvard Committee on Radio Isotopes recommended earlier this year that a new location be found for the Oxford St. Day Care Center...
Daniel Cantor, Harvard's director of personnel, said yesterday, "We think this will be the center's last school year spent at its present site. From the long-range point of view, it isn't the best thing to have a day-care center near a source of radiation...