Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home in Princeton, N.J., in 1953, the meeting, he says, "changed my life." Einstein, he recalls, "appeared at the head of a staircase with the setting sun to his left, his hair glowing like a halo. His head was so large, his body seemed to hang from it like a spiral nebula." The great man agreed to pose for a sculpture, a project Berks has worked on ever since. "I was overwhelmed by the sweetness, yet penetrating intellect of the man. He treated everyone the same, whether child or king," recalls Berks, who has also sculpted busts of John...
...closer to a change in rule--either through the domestic process outlined by an "interim agreement" signed in March, or by the intervention of Front troops led by Joseph Nkomo and Robert Mugabe--than it has ever been. But it is likely that Smith and his cohorts will hang on a while longer, both by holding off the guerrilla forces and by poking enough loopholes in plans for "transition to black majority rule" to make them more nominal than real. And when the end does come for Smith, the story will still not end happily: instead, a host of black...
...never bought enough bucks for a long enough time to have any lasting effect. And even $30 billion is not much when measured against the $600 billion or more in greenbacks that are floating around outside the U.S. Holders of those dollars can be persuaded to hang on to them in the long run only if they are convinced that the Administration is serious about bringing down inflation...
...American jumpers, including 17,000 addicts who belong to the U.S. Parachute Association. The number of jumpers has stayed about the same in the '70s. "When jumping started, there was a period of meteoric growth," says USPA Executive Director Bill Ottley. "Then all the kooky experimenters went into hang gliding and rock climbing...
...risk such comparisons. "We had at least six lengthy discussions about whether or not to do a sequel," recalls Alex Haley, the man whose genealogical search launched the whole Roots phenomenon. "Our initial feelings were negative. We felt the other did so well that we should just let it hang up there. Then, very gradually, it began to come together. Someone would ask me about stories I had, so I told them about Sister Carrie or Aunt Liz, and then some more...