Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most scientists concede that this honor could well be won by the giant Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) now under construction at Princeton. The TFTR is scheduled to begin operation in 1981 and is expected to prove the scientific feasibility of fusion...
...bestow honor and publicity upon a man who betrayed us and disgraced us before the entire world, a man who probably headed the most corrupt Administration the U.S. has ever...
...last week on the quiet banks of the Potomac. In his first public appearance since he resigned from the Supreme Court in November 1975, William O. Douglas, 78, attended the ceremonies dedicating to him the 20,200-acre Chesapeake and Ohio National Historical Park. The hundreds gathered in his honor needed no reminder that it was Douglas who spearheaded a campaign to save the 184-mile towpath along the C&O canal from becoming a highway-in 1954 he led conservationists on an eight-day hike from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause. At the dedication ceremonies, Douglas...
...Harvard International Student Association is planning a June party for the 1700 international students in the University in honor of foreign students graduating from the college...
...largely to efforts by Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu to resurrect him as, of all things, a national hero. At ceremonies last week in Bucharest celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rumania's independence, Ceausescu solemnly included Dracula among the immortals in the nation's Hall of Fame. The honor bestowed on Dracula followed a propaganda campaign to refurbish the image of the count. The real Dracula, Rumanian party historians insist, was the 15th century warrior-prince Vlad Dracula, who heroically battled Turkish oppressors...