Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Core Curriculum...
Either great compromise or exceptional creativity will be necessary if this group is to arrive at a unanimous conclusion on the central issue: the need for a core curriculum, otherwise known as General Education and distribution requirements...
Before it was released, Coonskin was a "controversial" movie. Representatives of CORE who saw it in preview denounced it for trafficking in vicious racial stereotypes, and this anger caused its original distributor, Paramount, to relinquish it gratefully to a smaller, less visible competitor. Once this happened, of course, the film was defended by other black groups charging censorship. They claimed that although Coonskin indeed showed blacks as hookers, hoodlums and con artists, it also showed the principal characters as tough, smart and ultimately victorious over still worse oppressors-mainly, corrupt cops and vile mafiosi...
...Mobster Mickey Cohen, now 61 and dependent on a cane, gets around nonetheless. His latest conquest is Actress Edy Williams, 33, former wife of soft-core Pornographer Russ Meyer (producer of such unrememberable screen classics as Vixen). "He's my Sir Galahad. He's incredibly strong; I only hope some of his strength rubs off on me," says Edy of her hero, whom she met at Boxer Bobby Chacon's Los Angeles training camp while posing for publicity pictures. "I'm used to guys chasing me, but when we were introduced he just stood back...
...hundred or so geologists and seismologists who turned up for the informal monthly meeting of California's Pick and Hammer Club expected an evening of socializing and routine gossip about faults, core samples and volcanoes. Instead, they heard scientific history in the making. As part of his work for the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Research Center, Seismologist Malcolm Johnston had just finished analyzing data from seven monitoring stations set up along the San Andreas Fault in the quake-prone Hollister area. His figures, Johnston told his colleagues, showed that the strength of the local magnetic field...