Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when a Houston reporter called HEW to ask about the trip to Washington, it turned out that there were problems. After consulting with the Surgeon General's office, HEW stipulated that Shawn would have to stop smoking for six months before she was really in the clear. And she would need written proof. And there were no Government funds to pay for her trip...
Hanoi has a clear superiority over Peking in sophisticated weaponry. Although both forces are fighting with arms made in the U.S.S.R. or with copies of Soviet models, many of the PLA's weapons were acquired before the Sino-Soviet split in the late 1950s. The Vietnamese also have some captured American equipment, notably the 177-mm howitzer, which outguns any artillery piece in the Chinese inventory. One of Hanoi's favorite and most effective weapons, as Americans learned at Khe Sanh, is the 130-mm howitzer. Says one military analyst in Hong Kong: "The Vietnamese love...
...seems clear that Flannery would have made her mark as a writer no matter where and how she lived her grownup years. She was born a Southerner and a Roman Catholic, and the vision that animated all her fiction came early: the infusion of divine grace into the lives of rustic, often grotesque characters who either do not recognize or cannot handle it. This plus talent and true grit guaranteed her status as an original. But the lupus made her a prodigious writer of letters as well. "Mail is very eventful to me," she wrote one friend shortly after returning...
...Library: Surely Harvard's own Bok, president through nearly a decade of political turmoil, deserves title to his pet project. Aren't there precedents--Eliot House, Lowell House and Pusey Library? Objection: The Bok-Kennedy-Engelhard link provokes images of "blood besotted" dollars. It is best to steer clear of such...
Funding the Core Curriculum. Roughly $24 million is slated for this, the most glamorous and concrete of the drive's goals. It is not clear right now exactly where the money will go; but course development, administrative costs, and classroom renovation for the Core are sure to cost the Faculty a good deal...