Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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However, I feel that your position regarding the ability of Nasser to compromise and reach out for a settlement while Israel, seeking an illusory military security, refuses figuratively and literally to give ground, is like Alice's at the Mad Hatter's tea party. Logic simply has no place in the aura of the Middle East...
...spectator will notice that he's sometimes hesitant about scooping up a ground ball when there is a group of players trying to pick it up. Just simple preservation. But Ince really surprised Yale's Carl Bates, who is a good deal heavier, when he knocked him right off the field while the Eli defense was trying to clear in the final game of the season. Harvard got the ball as a result. Around the net, Ince maneuvers well enough to just about negate any lack of brawn...
...people. The $1,000,000 plot became a vacant eyesore when the university cleared it of buildings a year ago. Last month some of Berkeley's "street people"-an amorphous assemblage of hippies, yippies, students and others falling into no classification-took over the plot. They plowed the ground and, with $1,000 raised among themselves and neighborhood businessmen, planted trees, flowers and grass. They installed benches, a sandbox and swings. Up went a sign: "People's Park." Abstract sculptures and mobiles of metal, wood and glass appeared. Sunday-afternoon rock concerts were organized...
When the 2,491-lb. Venus 5 was 31,000 miles from Venus, Soviet ground controllers sent a signal that separated the instrument capsule from the speeding craft. Protected by a heat shield while its descent was slowing, the capsule eventually deployed a parachute and began radioing information about the temperature, pressure and chemical composition of the atmosphere. After 53 minutes of transmission, the capsule's signals abruptly ceased. With no word from the Russians, Western scientists concluded that the intense heat of the lower atmosphere had disabled the transmitters before the capsule crashed. They recalled that...
...Ohio Division of Securities prohibited Northwest from soliciting shares in that state because of "indeterminate factors." Most important, the Justice Department intervened on the ground that the Northwest bid raised antitrust questions. The case promises to be a significant part of Antitrust Chief Richard McLaren's plan to challenge conglomerates (see following story...