Word: eruption
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George C. Wallace when he spoke in Sanders Theater in 1968. As W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, remembers it, an angry crowd outside the auditorium had the Harvard police worried. Several armed bodyguards accompanied Wallace, and then-University Police Chief Robert Tonis feared violence might erupt if the Wallace entourage attempted to walk through the crowd. So Tonis had the police escort Wallace through the tunnels to an awaiting car. (When Sectretary of Defense Robert McNamara was whisked away from demonstrators, however, the food tunnels linking five River Houses to the University's central kitchen were used...
Less than an inch of rain falls annually, which explains why houses are built without gutters or rain-spouts. But damp overcast mornings with mist are frequent, and sulphur fumes occasionally erupt from the nearby ocean bed. Taking advantage of the omnipresent sand, Walvis Baymen have built an 18-hole golf course with predictably spectacular bunkers. Perhaps the world's only drive-in movie atop a sand dune is a popular spot. Favorite sports include dune-buggy races and sand skiing at speeds of 40 m.p.h. down the precipitous 600-ft. dunes. The principal hazards for golfers, moviegoers, racers...
...range, will doom the big-deck carrier. The Consolidated Guidance maintains it has become "dubious at best" that the Navy's carriers could survive off the coast of Norway, where they are certain to be blitzed by swarms of Soviet submarines and land-based bombers as soon as hostilities erupt...
...them: Secret Police Chief Wang Tung-hsing, Peking Mayor Wu Teh and even Chairman Hua), while others (like Teng Hsiao-p'ing) were purged. In the long run, and despite the talk in Peking of a "united front," there remains a possibility that a new power struggle will erupt between Hua's supporters and Teng's veteran technocrats...
Shared appointments have their drawbacks for the couples. Tenure becomes a mid-career crisis; most colleges refuse to split a tenured post, so each partner must be considered separately. Professional jealousy can erupt between the sharers. Says Courtney Gordon: "You have to be noncompetitive in terms of your job?and have a very strong marriage." Another problem: it is virtually impossible to leave the office behind. The Grubers, for example, agreed initially that there would be no shop talk at meals. But after "a number of silent dinners," they gave in, and have never regretted it. Indeed, says Marjorie Woods...