Word: coversation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BUCK ROGERS belongs to the past Science fiction the United States has finally struggled to a state of respectability, shedding the dime-store pulp magazine image it acquired in the 20s and '30s. Gone are the lurid magazine covers of space ships, ray guns and over-endowed Galactic princesses; the...
BENEFITS: Many of the benefits are similar in the two contracts, but UFW contracts are more comprehensive, and the teamster contracts extent only to full-time workers have a credit union. Gallo workers do not. Almaden workers have a medical plan administered by a special staff, which covers 80 per...
BETWEEN THE COVERS of Harvard's Courses of Instruction lies a panoramic outline of the world's knowledge, probably unparalleled in United States education. In one description we are invited to learn about ancient history from an archaeological perspective; in another about the energetics of muscle contractions: in still another...
Unlike Nevins and Catton, Foote devotes little space to the political context of the war-the angry riptides of the 1850s, the drift into disaster. His attention is focused on the righting itself -fortifications, tactics, the strange chemistries of leadership, the workings in the generals' minds. Among other things...
Stock Scenes. Television is particularly ill equipped to cope with economic news. Until recently the commercial networks had virtually no economic specialists among their correspondents; as a medium, TV is handicapped when it covers any complex story that does not lend itself to exciting video. The standard half-hour evening...