Word: creation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giant cultivators, drawn behind tractors, gently stirring the earth between the rows of new corn. It is a consuming drama between a farmer and his land. Building more than 50,000 cars and trucks a day, as auto workers did last week, is a noisy creation that tends to squeeze out idle thoughts of the political campaign. And with wages at $6.57 an hour, the workers are enticed into weekend recreation rather than Jerry Ford rallies. Last week the National Park Service estimated that there were 9 million campers and sightseers in their domain, a 25% increase over last year...
...assistant since 1968. Most of Getty's fortune, which he kept mainly in Getty Oil stock, will apparently be given to charities, under a will said to have been prepared years ago. Unlike Howard Hughes, Jean Paul Getty was surely too careful to leave the future of his creation to chance and the courts...
Chris is not dressed by British Designer Ted Tinling, but she is one of the few top players he has not worked with. Tinling, 66, who was once a couturier in Paris, was present at the creation: it was he who designed Gussy's fancy pants. Now when he surveys the results of the revolution he began, he is not altogether happy. He coolly divides women tennis players into four categories. In Class A, of course, are the stars. He wishes he designed for Evert, but notes, "Anybody can dress a sugarplum fairy. The challenge is Margaret Court...
...Paris, he helped solve the riddle of how cells develop into unique structures like hair or the heart. In his bestselling 1970 book Chance and Necessity, he argued that there is neither god nor grand design in the universe: "Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation". His critics found his philosophy chilling and pessimistic. But like his friend Albert Camus, he seemed to find a transcendent freedom in the lack of hope. "Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity," he wrote. "His destiny is nowhere spelled...
Charles W. Robinson agreed to the creation of the Common Fund, but without promising U.S. participation...