Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was an American civilization before Columbus and Leif Ericson, as far back as 800 B.C., a Harvard professor of Invertabrate Zoology said yesterday...
...that it all worked so perfectly." Scientists who had sweated through Viking's earlier delays and other technical problems greeted the landing with applause or jokes. A few were damp-eyed. Most, however, were simply overwhelmed by the implications of their accomplishment. "How many times does Columbus arrive in history?" asked Gerald Soffen, Viking project scientist. "We've just witnessed one of the arrivals. We are a privileged generation." For the first time, through an obedient and ingeniously contrived robot, man was about to gaze at a Martian landscape, to begin sifting through Martian soil for evidence that...
...charges of obscenity and engaging in organized crime. The bride, who is the associate publisher of Hustler, will wear an ivory dress and veil, and her bridesmaids will be in red. The couple will live in a $375,000 Tudor mansion in Bexley, Ohio, a staid suburb of Columbus, where the good citizens have not exactly rolled out the welcome wagon...
Miss Lillian became a reporter herself for Georgia's Columbus Ledger (circ. 30,000). She recorded her impressions on tape, which were then phoned to the paper and put in print. On meeting Jane Fonda, she reported saying: "Jane, maybe the reason we're getting along so beautifully is that we're both so controversial." She described her reaction to the convention: "You know I felt it was a sacred thing I was looking...
...route to the U.S., the royal couple stopped off in the Dominican Republic, where Christopher Columbus, financed by Queen Isabella of Spain, made one of his first landfalls in the New World in 1492. In Washington, President Ford welcomed Juan Carlos and Sofia on the south lawn of the White House, then went off with the King and aides for a 40-minute review of Spanish-American relations. The talk centered on the proposed five-year treaty renewing U.S. base rights in Spain in return for $1.2 billion in grants and credits. Though the treaty is likely to be approved...