Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endless lauding of John Wayne [June 25] as an American hero and patriot has now gone too far. Enthusiastic as he was for the glorious wars fought by this nation, he was politically naive and simplistic. He never saw battle except on a movie set. He did not know war as the terrible and tragic thing...
...longstanding demand that the U.S. nuclear force in Europe, as well as the British and French nuclear arsenals, be counted under SALT. Said Lieut. General George Seignious, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, last week: "I believe that we did very well in that tradeoff. I know our allies would agree." The arrangement was endorsed by Baker when he voted in 1972 for the SALT I treaty and supported the Vladivostok accord...
...slightly injured three of his security guards and damaged their car. Two days later, Haig was jetting about Europe in a U.S. Air Force DC-9, receiving 17-gun farewell salutes. Said British Major General Geoffery B. Wilson: "We rejoice that you were spared [in the bombing], and we know we will hear more from you. Watch out, United States...
...Shock, Lamont reports that Harvard's defenses are still basically sound. "The thing that struck me most about Harvard was that it wasn't knocked askew by one single problem....Harvard seems to have all the problems, but for some reason they deal with them better. I don't know whether they spend more time, or they're smarter, or whether it's the fact that they're simply Harvard...
...Bowie and Eno are the only artists to use electronics in an imaginative, fertile way for music we can still call rock. Performers like Keith Emerson and Peter Gabriel know only how to shock and dazzle their audiences by using the synthesizer like a super-organ; disco and mainstream musicians have used electronics only to make the sounds of real instruments louder, more regular, or weirder...