Word: forme
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DETENTE. Using rhetoric with a 1950s, Red-baiting ring, he regards Communism as "a form of insanity [that] is contrary to human nature." He is deeply suspicious of dealing with the Soviet Union. Last week he told TIME Correspondent John Austin: "Detente has been a one-way street that the Soviets have used to continue moving toward the Marxist goal of a socialist, one-world state." He contends that the Russians are trying to achieve nuclear superiority over the U.S. in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He adds, "The Soviet Union would...
...over the next three years. Finally, city and state banks and pension funds would give up $2.4 billion in three-year MAC bonds yielding 12% interest in exchange for ten-year securities paying 6%. Once this is all done, the Federal Government would bridge the remaining gap with some form of assistance...
...bladderball game, for example. This is a form of sport in which three or four thousand Yalies lock themselves inside the Old Campus with a huge canvas ball. There appears to be no object to it except to immerse oneself in a surging tide of flesh, heaving violently in one direction after another in pursuit of the ball. The specter of academic pressure seems to preside over this activity, as it does over every activity at Yale. Last year the bladderball was removed to Kingman Brewster's lawn and, while the president of Yale stood on his porch, drink...
...19th-century Boston museums is worth visiting, if only to see the "Feejee Mermaid" that made a fortune for Barnum & Bailey as a sideshow attraction. Carpenter Center's exhibition of hand weaving and basketwork exemplifies Horatio Greenough's dictum that "Beauty is the promise of action," better known as "Form follows function...
WITH SIX of its eleven original sponsors in the Senate Judiciary Committee, S.1 stands a fairly good chance of being reported out of committee with just a few amendments. Some senators, like Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) an original sponsor who has withdrawn support for the bill in its current form, say that with a few amendments the bill could be a good one. But it is probably closer to the truth to estimate, as does the American Civil Liberties Union, that only after about 2600 amendments would S.1 be palatable. Once the bill hits the Senate floor, the tedious legal...