Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Several other new graduates are staying closer to home. Barbara Nemetz, originally in the Class of '74, says she will apply for a position with a management consultant firm or a bank and may eventually apply to business school...
...somehow unfulfilling. They are filled with philosophy and hope, much as is his poetry; and entangle the reader into an emotionally exhausting extent in the triumphs and tragedies of history. But the function of memoirs is to make a person more accessible, Neruda's don't bring us much closer to the poet than his verses already did. In a sense, the Memoirs are the prose form of his poetry--both are filled with nature, indignation and politics. And to a reader of Neruda's poetry, his Memoirs will contain little that...
...rain turned white? Startled millionaires wintering in their baronial mansions in West Palm Beach, Fla., peered closer last week at the miracle that was falling from the skies and discovered-could it be?-yes, the substance was snow, the first ever reported there. Since mid-November, pedestrians in Dallas, unaccustomed to such hazards, have been slipping on sleet-slicked sidewalks. Meanwhile, a series of blizzards has smothered Buffalo this winter with an astonishing 126.6 in. of snow...
These tests will allow Martian soil samples to incubate longer in order to give any microbes present a better chance to grow. The experiments will be run at temperatures closer to the frigid levels that prevail on Mars. Also, in a search for life that may have burrowed deeper into the Martian soil to escape ultraviolet radiation bombarding the surface, one of the landers will try to dig 30.5 centimeters (1 foot) deep for a soil sample. Explains Klein: "We want to play out our whole set of cards before we make our best judgment on the question of life...
...Richter scale would occur within a 15 kilometer (9.3 mile) radius of a ranch near Hollister, Calif., during January 1977. On Jan. 6, a quake measuring 3.2 shook the ground about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from Hollister. This successful, unpublicized prediction shows that scientists are moving closer to their goal of reliable earthquake forecasts (TIME cover, Sept. 1, 1975). But predicting how people will react to public forecasts is still somewhat of an inexact science...