Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...infant Tonweya, Ogle's son, from burning himself. Just as Olepi's life parallels Ogle's, Ahbleza's will parallel Tonweya's Despite the fact that Ahbleza is several years older, the two boys become 'brother-friends', and like their fathers, both are marked for distinction. Tonweya becomes a great scout while Ahbleza strives to become leader of the Mahto band, and, eventually, the entire Teton (Sioux) Nation...
Journalists and diplomats trying to make sense of it were already calling China's invasion of Viet Nam the "Great Inscrutable War." All things considered, it was probably the most bedeviling and worst-reported major conflict in recent history. The result: misinformation (mostly on casualty figures), unbridled speculation and wild surmise. Items...
China's new rulers might put it more practically: no law, no Four Modernizations program to improve agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. "It is essential to strengthen the socialist legal system if we are to bring great order across the land," says Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. That means assuring bureaucrats, intellectuals and skilled workers essential to China's development that they will not be summarily sent off to the rice paddies or driven to suicide, as they often were under Mao. Fear of government highhandedness, party leaders now admit, has been running rampant. To boost morale...
...miles) of the swirling Jovian cloud tops, the robot survived intense radiation, peered deep into the planet's storm-tossed cloud cover, provided startling views of the larger Jovian moons and, most surprising of all, revealed the presence of a thin, flat ring around the great planet. Said University of Arizona Astronomer Bradford Smith: "We're standing here with our mouths open, reluctant to tear ourselves away...
First off, analytical scrutiny of happiness should not be confused with preaching about it. Books hustling formulas and drills that are supposed to produce happiness circulate these days in numbers that are too great to count, let alone mention. These products of the booming feel-good industry invariably try to evoke happiness, but they seldom describe or analyze it. That, of course, is the fascination of the scientific challenge. The feelgood trade's blizzard of lighter-than-air tracts proves nothing whatever about happiness except that a lot of people are willing to pay for help in pursuing...