Word: directing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militancy to sustain its own revolutionary mystique at home. In any case, diplomacy is based on the practical possibility of a quid pro quo. The quid in Fulbright's proposal is that the U.S. would eventually pull out its troops. The quo? Peking can offer none, in a direct sense, since it has no Chinese troops stationed in Southeast Asia and thus can claim that it has no divisions to withdraw...
...Ball. While direct campaign contributions by companies in federal elections are banned by the Corrupt Practices Act-as his fellow Senators know well-legal loopholes allow corporations to take expensive ads in political puff sheets, permit executives to donate to a political fund as "individuals." Last week the 17-member Senate Finance Committee-four of whose stalwarts are themselves up for re-election-passed a Williams-sponsored amendment to the Viet Nam tax bill aimed primarily at corporations, stipulating that their indirect political donations will no longer be even partly tax-deductible as "business expenses...
...tough action against Premier Ian Smith's rebel regime. It did not work out that way. No sooner had the delegates from 36 nations gathered in Addis Ababa's Africa Hall than they fell to squabbling about Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah, an advocate of direct African military action against the Rhodesians. Guinea, Mali, Tanzania and Egypt all stomped out of the conference when it was decided to seat a Ghanaian delegation representing the new Accra government. After that, Algeria, Somalia, Kenya and the Brazzaville Congo followed suit...
Gradually, as the accuracy of radio telescopes improved, the vague shapes in the sky contracted until it became possible for radio observers to direct optical astronomers to smaller and more manageable areas. In 1949, astronomers using these directions spotted the first visible object outside the solar system that was associated with a discrete radio source: the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star explosion (or supernova) in the earth's Milky Way galaxy. Shortly afterward, they identified the first visible source outside the Milky Way: a large galaxy 50 million lightyears* from earth. In the next decade, as radio...
...enrolled at the University of Groningen, where he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy, his dedication to astronomy had begun to alarm his father, a government accountant. "How can you earn your daily bread by looking at the stars?", the elder Schmidt asked repeatedly. He was placated only by a direct appeal from University Astronomy Professor Adriaan Blaauw, who saw in the eager young student the makings of an able professional. Upon graduation in 1949, Schmidt was offered a job at the University of Leiden Observatory as an assistant to Astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who is famous for determining the rotation...