Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SPORTSMAN'S HOLIDAY (NBC, 5:30-6 p.m.). The fishiest of stories: salmon in New Brunswick, Canada; sawfish in Central America's Lake Nicaragua; ice fishing in New York State...
...working out very well, are they?" asks Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 40, a former Assistant Secretary of Labor and currently the most controversial of urban-affairs analysts. The question may sound over jaunty, but in fact it reflects the chief preoccupation of Pat Moynihan's life and the central domestic issue, one that is increasingly engaging the nation's intellectual community...
Into Decline. Under India's terms of independence, the old royal families who governed half the country and one-fourth of its people turned over their kingdoms to the central government in exchange for tax-free pensions and a series of special privileges. The pensions varied all the way from $26 to $665,000 a year, depending on the size of the kingdom; many princes retained most of their accumulated wealth. The privileges included immunity from arrest and civil lawsuit, and retention of old titles, many palaces and estates...
...ships that Salmon sought to immortalize are mostly forgotten, but his views of the waterfront retain their honesty and vigor. For his backdrops, he rarely ventured farther north than Nahant or south beyond Squantum, and his finest canvases detail the disciplined confusion of the wharves in Boston's central harbor. Beyond being a realist, Salmon also had a touch of genius. He was the first painter to bring English landscape techniques to the New World; in fact, his style was much imitated by New England artists. Says Dartmouth's Wilmerding: "Anyone with an eye could see that...
...Surveyor 4 sped toward the moon's Central Bay at 5,938 m.p.h. last week, ground controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory had high hopes that the unmanned spacecraft would do everything it was told. Two earlier Surveyors had soft-landed on the moon with astonishing ease, sent back 17,465 detailed pictures showing even lunar pebbles. With a hinged aluminum arm, Surveyor 3 had also scooped up lunar soil, helped determine that the moon's surface is strong enough to bear a weight of 6 lbs. per sq. in., more than enough to support...