Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever else James Michener may be guilty of, no one has ever accused him of thinking small. Practically entire forests have been felled to produce such trunk-sized novels as Hawaii and The Source. In Centennial, Michener begins with the first faint primordial stirrings on the face of the deep and slogs onward through the ages until he hits the day before yesterday. He is the Will Durant of novelists, less an artist than a kind of historical compacter...
Except to fuel arguments among astronomers, quasars (for quasi-stellar objects) have proved of no practical value since their discovery in 1960. Now the faint, far-off points of light that are possibly the most distant objects in the universe-up to 12 billion light-years away -promise to take on more earthly importance. Scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are hoping to use the bursts of high-frequency radio energy that come from quasars to help them predict earthquakes...
...past two years, the reader of an American newspaper has been virtually assured of finding a Watergate-related story blazoned across the front page. But now the drumbeat of daily Watergate headlines has died away to a faint, uninsistent thump. Suddenly, there is no "news." Or, to put the matter another way, all the news that fits is in print. Local gripes now receive fullblown front-page treatment. Crime makes a comeback. Sports stories normally relegated to back pages jump startlingly forward. The merely eyecatching, the determinedly trivial and the yawning of a new era are now featured boldly. Says...
Though Ford had Rockefeller in mind from the start, he kept his opinion to himself. He wanted to draw party leaders into the decision, and he was anxious to keep his options open in case Rockefeller, for some reason, did not work out. The first faint sign that the President was thinking of Rockefeller was given even before Richard Nixon left the White House. Ford's old House associate Melvin Laird, now a Reader's Digest executive, announced that he supported Rocky for Vice President if Ford took over as President. Though Ford had not asked Laird...
...right? Is the President the head of household who is entitled to run his own family without interference from the courts, or is he the police chief who must endure the unwanted exercise of his subordinate's authority? The Constitution gives only faint help. Article II, Section 3 prescribes that the President "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." There is no mention of any other law-enforcement officer, including the Attorney General. Thus many experts-including a top Justice Department official-believe that the "ultimate" legal authority belongs to the President...