Word: icebergs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commend The Crimson for its excellent November 12 editorial reminding the Harvard community that the struggle to gain fair representation for agricultural workers is not over. The United Farm Workers' boycott of non-UFW iceberg lettuce and table grapes and Gallo wines will indeed continue until contracts are signed...
...Woman's Survival Sourcebook, though its editors call it only "the tip of the iceberg" of a movement that itself still has a long, long way to go, indicates just how far from that beginning women have come...
This idea is carried even farther in Aalto's latest building, Finlandia House, Helsinki's concert and convention center, where the European security conference was held (TIME, Aug. 4). Standing alone in a bayside park, it looks like a beached iceberg-an immense, rugged structure clad in snowy white marble. On one side, the building rides gently over some rocky ledges (which in the U.S. would probably have been dynamited away); on another, it retreats in scalloped curves from nearby trees...
...missile installations at Berbera are only the tip of the Soviet iceberg on the hot horn of Africa. Over the past several years, the Russians have transformed Somalia's 17,000-man armed forces into some of the strongest on the continent. Of the 3,000 or so Russians in Somalia today, fully 1,400 are assigned to the army and air force. The Somali army, less than half the size of neighboring Ethiopia's, now has far superior firepower-and the largest tank force south of the Sahara. The air force boasts a squadron of Ilyushin...
...agency to presidential authority, evidence of a CIA assassination plot would seem to implicate one President or the other, even both, unless, of course, the CIA had become a law unto itself. What the Rockefeller commission report revealed was "in all likelihood just the tip of the iceberg," according to Church. The real likelihood is that so far as the actual assassinations are concerned, there was never much more to this floating body than a deceptively shimmering tip. Castro, however, was another matter. The agency version of the charges is this...