Word: column
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Managua, a heavily armed column of Somoza's National Guardsmen, equipped with tanks and supported by rocket-firing airplanes, laid siege to the rebel positions. In the savage fighting that followed, hundreds died and more than 15,000 sought refuge in the surrounding villages. Predicted one guerrilla: "Only the dead will remain here. We will die, but we will take a lot of Guardsmen with...
...electricity. The Army Corps of Engineers believes that electricity supplies could be increased significantly by expanding and improving existing hydroelectric power stations. Other alternatives will require technological breakthroughs. The fluidized-bed method of burning coal-essentially, burning a mixture of crushed coal and sand suspended on a column of air inside a superhot container-promises ultimately to make combustion more efficient while cutting down on pollutants. It is now in the experimental stage, but has yet to be made applicable to large-scale commercial operations. Unlocking oil from the vast deposits of shale rock in the West at present...
...Hugh Carey, the longtime suitor of Ford's daughter Anne, had prevailed on Frank Sinatra to meet with Ford. Safire speculated broadly that Ford hoped that Sinatra's gangland contacts would get to Cohn's underworld law clients and persuade the lawyer to lay off. The column raised such a furor that Safire rather grudgingly wrote another piece reporting the many disclaimers...
...graduate of Smith College and a Pulitzer winner herself (in 1978 for commentary), Seattle-born Greenfield was hired by Geyelin himself in 1968 after eleven years with Reporter magazine, and became his deputy in 1970. She plans to continue her fortnightly Newsweek column while presiding over the Post's eight editorial writers. No drastic shifts of policy are expected under Greenfield, who describes herself as a "moderate centrist liberal," similar to her predecessor in ideology. "She's rather conservative on fiscal issues but not on human rights," says Post Reporter Myra MacPherson, a good friend. Enthuses George Will...
...before his death. But even if "Mr. Ed" was just about the dumbest thing ever to appear in the twisted history of television, we loved it. And we loved Ed, and the carefree horse-sense he espoused. And so, from now on, we will call this space the "Ed column...