Word: discusses
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While President Nixon was spreading the gospel of disengagement in Southeast Asia, Secretary of State William Rogers was deep in talks with the Japanese. Those discussions turned out to be not only diplomatically difficult but physically dangerous. A Japanese anarchist, Shigeji Hamaoka, 21, went at Rogers with a dull paint scraper and missed. Hamaoka's apparent motive: to protest the supposed injustice that Rogers was in Tokyo to discuss-continued U.S. occupation of Okinawa. The island was captured in 1945, and has since become the largest U.S. military base off the Asian mainland...
...Greek clarity and Greek mysticism. In the evening light, the sky takes on blues and oranges and greens, the sea becomes deeper, the moon blazes in the sky. But neither the place nor the rhetOTIC now seemed equal to the distant crises that these people had tried to discuss all week. The wind was rising as Margaret Mead stumped forward in a flowered hat, a long black cape and blue sneakers. Reading out the Declaration of Delos VII ("there is a basic distortion of values in society's failure to allocate resources for the improvement of human settlements...
Secret Formulas. The formula for each additive is closely guarded, and manufacturers discuss the ingredients only in vague terms. One major ingredient is usually polyisobutylene, which is made by combining molecules of certain chemicals with a butane derivative of crude oil. It produces approximately the same results as far costlier additives in improving the viscosity, or thickness, of oil-and can be bought at the rate of 920 a gallon...
Heard, born in Savannah, received his doctorate in political science from Columbia (1951) and learned administration as dean of the graduate school at the University of North Carolina. His first move on taking over as chancellor of Vanderbilt in 1963 was to call in student leaders to discuss campus affairs, a move that got him off to a good start with the student body. He then requested a written self-appraisal from each department, getting response from 285 faculty and staff members. This netted him a 4,400-page report 16.3 inches high, all of which he read and used...
...labyrinth was the main feature of what was billed as the First International Tactile Sculpture Symposium, which drew 15 artists, psychologists and teachers to discuss such things as the importance of touch to emotion and art. The exhibits were public. Reaction, as registered on questionnaires distributed at the entrance, may or may not have affirmed the symposium's point. "Fearful," read one response, "Sexy," read another One young woman resurfaced from the darkness in the buff, clutching her garments. "It's too much of an experience in there," she said matter-of-factly. "I didn't understand...