Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spent only $8.8 million for medical research. Until now, the IRS has not compelled it to conform to the 1969 Tax Reform Act, which requires private foundations to disburse a fixed percentage of their assets. In the wake of Hughes' death, the Government may take a much closer look at the medical institute...
Meanwhile, Hollywood will also take a closer look at the departed billionaire. Last week Warner Bros, announced that it would make a movie about Hughes, starring Warren Beatty. The project has been secretly under development for about a year under-what could be a better epitaph?-the code name "Operation Phantom...
...SOCIALIST PARTY, led by former Foreign Minister Soares, 51, will be trying to best its impressive 38% showing in last April's election for a Constituent Assembly. Two early polls show the Socialists getting about 40%. In the past year Soares has edged the party closer to the center. Its platform advocates increased private investment, price controls, guarantees of property rights of small farmers and a new agrarian-reform program. It opposes further nationalizations...
...match was much closer than the score indicates. After six singles matches, the teams were knotted at three apiece--and during the early part of the doubles matches it looked like the 'Cliffe net-women were about to drop only their second match this season...
...imposed on by outsiders and the everyday world as much as it is created by the astronomers themselves. The scientific community, too, keeps its distance, regarding astronomy as a rather old-fashioned and superstitious discipline. Professionals these days call the field "astrophysics"--a label which may bring them closer to other scientists, but alienates them still more from the average person. The problems astrophysicians deal with often seem, to the common eye, ascetically dry, scholastically obscure, and maybe irreverent...