Word: laterizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knicks' last game against Milwaukee, he held the highly touted Lew Alcindor to 17 points. Against Boston recently, Reed drove around 7-ft. Center Rich Niemann to sink a reverse layup; seconds later, he went up twice under the Boston backboard to slam away Jim Barnes' layup attempts. When Reed left the game to a standing ovation, he had 27 points and the Knicks had a 25-point lead they held...
Using the humble pea, an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Johann Mendel proved that living things pass their characteristics to later generations with mathematical regularity-almost as if the formula for each trait were conveyed in a separate little package. Last week, more than a century later, a team of young Harvard researchers reported that they had finally zeroed in on that Mendelian package. For the first time, science had isolated a single gene...
...present Greek government, and the adventure is the extrapolation of an incident in Athens, circa 1963. A Spock-like physician-politician (Yves Montand) addresses an antimilitary rally. As he leaves the assembly hall, he is viciously clubbed by hired assassins as a truck simultaneously brushes past him. Three days later, without regaining consciousness, he dies. Officials immediately offer smug condolences about the "regrettable traffic accident." But a few bits of offal stick to the whitewash. A journalist coaxes a witness into a confession; an alibi springs an irreparable leak. The incorruptible public prosecutor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) remains unswayed by police...
...joining the Cambridge Project It is highly unlikelythat the Defense Department would spend $7.7 billion on a project which it didn't think would benefit it in some way. Although the Cambridge Project does involve methodological rather than applied research, the methodologies it develops could prove quite useful later in Defense Department strategy-making. And the present role of the Defense Department in the world is far from a benevolent...
...five minutes later. Poile stole the puck from a Harvard defenseman in the Crimson end and beat Durno cleanly from 20 feet to put Harvard down again...