Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From Paris, France, to Xenia, Ohio, to Bad Axe, Mich., Richard Nixon last week took his own advice, as set forth in the Six Crises description of how he defused the 1952 uproar over his political slush fund. This time, his counteroffensive was against the gathering danger of his impeachment, and the peripatetic President's message to the American public was that despite Watergate he was still greatly respected and needed abroad, and could still be welcomed and on top of things at home. But his travels provided Nixon with no more than a brief respite from the pressures...
Beyond next year's mission lies the $5.1 billion U.S. space shuttle-a recoverable crossbreed of spacecraft and airplane designed to ferry men, equipment and satellites back and forth between earth and orbit. One of the few signs of future activity at Canaveral is the line of surveyor stakes laid out for a new three-mile runway to land the shuttle on its returns to earth. But the first shuttle is not expected to be launched until around 1979-an eon away in spacemen's terms. Meanwhile, the hulking, $117 million Vehicle Assembly Building, which covers eight acres...
...week before the Faculty was scheduled to consider ROTC, the SFAC presented its resolution, an amalgamation of the HUC and HRPC proposals. The resolution--to be offered to the Faculty by Rogers Albritton, professor of Philosophy--put forth a five-point plan for ending ROTC's academic status...
...cleaning was coming along. 'Famously,' I replied. 'Let me show you the Cour Carrée of the Louvre.' We stood in the middle of the courtyard. Half of it was grimy black, the other half a gleaming white. The general looked back and forth and then let out a loud whistle. It was the only time I ever heard General de Gaulle whistle." Malraux hastened to add that he, for one, does not consider the scrub-up his supreme accomplishment. "My greatest coup," he said, "is that the Restaurant Lasserre in Paris created Pigeon Andr...
...forth year advanced standing student con-currently enrolled in the graduate school. In many ways this year has been largely oriented toward graduate studies in my case. Personally I feel put upon when requested to pay this fee. I especially feel that the fee lacks justification when Dunster house can afford to spend a reported $6,000 on ugly curtians and Eliot house receives $20,000 to spend on a program in Humanities...