Word: intact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...backed onto the stage unknowing, while the crowd roared. The obvious solution to this was the BBC, which sucks talent like bits of fluff into that big white building, where it's safe forever. But I had my tattered pride. In fact, my whole array of virtues was intact; only the man behind them was missing. I didn't really give a damn anymore whether I was English or American, but the U.S. was still the prairie of record, the place where the garbled soul of Chatworth could re-create itself. Or failing that, become famous...
...documentation. Half of that massive archive was released to the public last week following freedom-of-information lawsuits (see following story); the other half will come out next month. While the avalanche of paper will not sweep away all the doubts, mysteries and conspiracy theories, it leaves very much intact the verdict reached by the Warren Commission in 1964: Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, murdered Kennedy...
...were primarily interested in gold. But later visitors have been even more impressed with the Inca highway system, stretching from the ancient capital at Cuzco north into Colombia and south well into Chile. Paved with massive, hand-hewn blocks of stone, the roads have survived the centuries all but intact. The Route of the Incas by Jacques Soustelle (Viking; unpaged; $35) evokes the grandeur of the vanished Inca empire and explains why a people who never used the wheel built such a road network. Hans Silvester's striking photographs capture the haunting beauty of sites like the ruined city...
...Crimson divers remained true to past years' form by thoroughly dominating both diving events. Harvard's top-notch diving coach John Walker has kept his very talented corps of acrobats virtually intact, providing a big boost to his colleague Bernal. Sophomore Steve Schramm, a high school All-American, further increased Harvard's bulging lead by nailing down both the required and optional events...
...program moved through the House relatively intact, thanks to the skillful management of Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill, who assembled an ad hoc energy committee to make sure he had tight control of the bill's fate on his turf. But in the Senate, where the rules of procedure do not permit tight organization as in the House, the plan has come completely unstuck. The dismemberment has been greatly aided by an intense lobbying effort by the oil industry, whose powerful friends include Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee. Generally, the House voted to retain...