Word: clung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joys of honeymooning with his first wife Alys, a Quaker from Philadelphia. Stimulated by such delights, Russell wrote his first major work, The Principles of Mathematics, at the breakneck rate of 200,000 words in three months. The book was designed to liberate numbers from the mystique that had clung to them since the days of Pythagoras and to demonstrate that all mathematics derives from logic. The three-volume Principia Mathematica took Russell and Whitehead ten years. Most of it is completely inaccessible to non-mathematicians, but not all. For example, it contains a careful explication of what is generally...
...Administration's rationale is that a midget surplus gives congressional spenders less room to operate. Had the Administration clung to its original aim of a $3 billion surplus for fiscal 1971, explains a top Budget Bureau official, the effect would have been to encourage Congress to raise its spending sights. More important, Nixon's successful veto of the Labor-HEW bill last week (see following story) and his threat to impound other funds that he considers excess will probably inhibit congressional spenders...
...rape attempt was more dramatic. On the other side of the square, a drunken marine spotted a young refugee with his wife. Neither could have been much more than 20, and they clung together, very frightened. The marine demanded the wife and was about to make off with her when a marine lieutenant happened by. The lieutenant pulled out his .45 and shot the soldier in the foot. Neither rape nor looting is condoned by Nigerian officers. One marine was shot to death on the spot when he was found raping an Ibo girl near the Owerri radio station...
...Havens. A raffish odor clung to I.O.S. for years because its legal home was Panama and so many of its 100 subsidiaries were incorporated in tax havens -the Bahamas, Luxembourg, the Netherlands Antilles. (One result is that I.O.S. paid only $945,000 in taxes on its 1968 income of $15.3 million.) Lately, as Cornfeld's success has led dozens of other mutual funds to incorporate "offshore," the tax-dodging criticism has lost much of its sting. Last June, I.O.S. quietly shifted its legal domicile to Canada. European bankers who once sneered at Cornfeld's brash ways have lately...