Word: en
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teng's rehabilitation in 1973, a move that had to be approved by Mao, attests to Chou En-lai's determination to rebuild the governing hierarchy in the wake of the Cultural Revolution's devastations. But clearly Teng's ascent to the pinnacle of China's huge bureaucracy is equally due to the fact that he is a tough, shrewd and talented administrator?just the kind of man needed by Chou and Mao to help pull the bureaucracy back together...
Cuisenaire, who became the head of his local grade school in Thuin in 1934, retired 13 years later to complete work on his invention and to publish his findings in a book, Nombres En Couleur (1951). Cuisenaire's brainchild was a set of ten different colored wooden rods ranging in length from...
...simple frustration," says Dr. Eli A. Friedman, inventor of the suitcase kidney. Fried man, director of the renal diseases section at New York's Downstate Medical Center, had planned to take 25 kidney patients on a European holiday in 1974, dialyzing them at stopovers en route. But at the last minute, medical authorities in Copenhagen concluded that they did not have enough dialysis machines to handle so many additional patients. Forced to cancel the trip, Friedman resolved to build a dialysis machine that kidney patients could carry on their travels and operate by themselves...
...equipment, the anti-Soviet groups in the former Portuguese colony have so far managed to thwart Moscow's desire for a foothold on the southwest coast of Africa. Among other things, Soviet air and naval bases in Angola would give the Russians the capacity to intercept Western supertankers en route from the Persian Gulf to Europe...
...weeks ago entertained a group of visiting Jewish leaders at a kosher luncheon (lox, roast chicken, white wine). He said that Mexico voted for the measure only because it was trying to prod Israel into a dialogue with the Arabs. He told them that Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa was en route home from Israel after laying a wreath at the shrine of Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, and that he would ensure that future votes by Mexico would not be "misinterpreted or misunderstood" as equating Zionism with racism. Satisfied with Echeverría's explanation, the leaders returned...