Word: channelize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THURSDAY: Seven Days in May, The screenplay in by Rod Serling, and may seem a lot less shocking now, Channel...
FRIDAY: Magnetic Monster, 1953. When witch hunting for Russian Reds and Martian Greens alike was getting underway in earnest, Channel...
...confer with his partner in this year's Nobel Peace Prize, North Vietnamese Politburo Member Le Due Tho.* Later, a U.S. spokesman said that the 4½-hour meeting at the Hotel Majestic had been "good-humored" and that the two men had agreed to keep the "channel of communication" between them open. The paucity of detail was doubtless a reflection of the fact that the cease-fire in South Viet Nam is not working according to plan...
...first week on the counters, Anti-Monopoly sold more than 2,000 copies at $8.75 each. After 15,000 sets are purchased, Anspach will channel 5% of all profits into a special legal aid fund that he has set up for small companies victimized by conglomerates. If the fund produces the desired effect, executives of large, errant corporations may some day be forced to obey a command on the Anti-Monopoly board: "Go to court. The judge has called an extra session." Still, that is preferable to Monopoly's "Go directly to jail...
...euphoria" for the industry, in his words-the companies thought that their supply problems were over: the Alaska North Slope oilfield had just been proved and was expected to be powering cars by 1972, drilling had started on a large offshore field in California's Santa Barbara Channel, and coal production was still going strong and was expected to take some of the slack from oil. Within months, all the promises were reversed: environmentalists stopped the Alaska pipeline, which was only recently given final go-ahead; a giant oil spill forced a shutdown of the Santa Barbara fields...