Word: channelize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With those words French Secretary of State for Transportation Pierre Billecocq co-signed the historic 1973 treaty committing France and Britain to support the construction of a 32-mile train tunnel under the English Channel. Plans to link the two nations by "chunnel" had graced the drawing boards of imaginative engineers for nearly 200 years; French Engineer Albert Mathieu's 1802 design shows a coach-and-four trotting through a candlelit tube with ventilating pipes reaching above the waves. But whenever the 19th century pipe dream threatened to come true, Britain got skittish. A characteristically insular reaction came from...
...Americans haven't had to deal with Monty Python in eclipse, when mutilated cat jokes get as predictable as buckets of water. What's available now--four superb records, one incredibly funny movie, and a series of 14 fairly good one-hour TV shows that will be aired on Channel 2 this spring--is vintage Monty Python, which is high praise...
...toured the Midwest and the West, settling twice in San Diego. There a women's consciousness-raising group at a Y.M.C.A helped channel her interests from a dying political revolution to a rising feminist one. By accident, she says, she ran into Mark Rudd, a leader of the 1968 student strike at Columbia, somewhere in the Southwest and was repelled by his "sexist" attitudes...
...Harvard by something of a fluke. A Yale-sponsored program called the Transitional Year, designed to channel minority students into Ivy League schools, contacted him when he was in high school. Sam has never been able to figure out how they got his name, but since they did--and, he jokes, since his high school principal advised him against it--he decided to make the big trip to the alien East, while most of his friends went off to find jobs or fight in Vietnam...
...prison officials. The show has won an award from the Association of American Trial Lawyers. Encouraged by his success, Mosiello recently embarked on his most ambitious prison enterprise: New Vista, a nonprofit broadcasting corporation that will market radio talk shows on crime and prisons, publish a companion magazine and channel its income into con-created programs for juvenile offenders...