Word: centrally
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...summer riots, praised it as if it were his own,* jubilantly bringing a host of business and municipal leaders to the White House for the announcement. "What the Government does," he told the gathering, "really is only the beginning. Private efforts are not just essential to success-they are central to success...
Catapult Balls. Letters flew between Malraux and Defferre. Finally in early August, Malraux ordered work halted for a month-and the archaeologists began digging. They unearthed remnants of towers, lower ramparts, parts of a pier, inner walls, a sewer network and a central flagstone street. Buried within the fortifications, which are at least 460 ft. by 130 ft., were catapult balls of apparently Roman origin, along with building blocks bearing Greek monograms and pottery fragments, including one that dates from the 5th century B.C. Said Euzennat, who believes the find as important as the ruins of Carthage: "You have...
...central question was whether it should be made easier for women to get legal and safely sterile abortions. Boston College's Jesuit Theologian-Lawyer Robert F. Drinan contended that even a therapeutic abortion under the model code recommended by the American Law Institute and recently adopted, in essence, by three states means taking a life. To ensure that no abortion should have legal sanction, Father Drinan suggested that the states should repeal all abortion laws...
Died. James P. Finnegan, 66, one-time (1944-51) collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis and a central figure in the Truman Administration scandals, the first of some 30 tax officials to resign during the 1951 congressional probe that uncovered illegal payoffs in many IRS offices, was convicted in 1952 of taking money from two firms with cases before the Government, serving 18 months of a two-year term for misconduct in office; of a heart ailment; in Webster Groves...
...generous tribute, Robert Lowell called Jarrell "a Wordsworth with the obsessions of Lewis Carroll." He focused his poet's eye on a central moral problem of the age, which might be called the Eichmann syndrome, and expressed it in bitter doggerel...