Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S Science editor from 1945 to 1965; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Leonard covered the development of the Abomb, the first nuclear reactor and the early discoveries of the space age. A man of wide-ranging curiosity, he was a biblical scholar as well as a Latin American specialist; he could describe quasars or the ways of night-flying squirrels with precision and clarity. Such books as Flight Into Space and Crusades of Chemistry made Leonard one of the nation's most respected science writers. ∙ Died. Clifford Durr, 76, Federal Communications commissioner and civil liberties lawyer...
...Cambridge City Council last night approved a $20.6 million loan order to renovate and reconstruct portions of Rindge Technical and Cambridge and Latin High Schools...
...World. The name, Paul tells his desire, derives from the position of the town on the water line dividing Europe in half. North of the watershed, he says, all rivers flow into the North Sea; south of the divide, they flow into the Mediterranean. Poised between the warm Latin countries on the one hand and the chill Teutonic lands on the other, the town belongs to neither--it lies in the middle of an uncommitted, non-involved world...
...illegals pour in from practically everywhere. Mexicans, many of them migratory farm workers, are the most prominent group. Other large contingents include Canadians, West Indians, Latin Americans, Greeks and overseas Chinese. Most gravitate to the large cities, where jobs are more plentiful and they can easily escape detection by fading into the crowd. The INS believes that there are 1.5 million unlawful aliens in and around New York City and half a million each in the Chicago and San Antonio areas. Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Manuel Aragon says that one person out of eight in his city-about...
...twelve years, Fidel Castro's Cuba has been out in the cold-banished from the councils of its hemispheric neighbors in the Organization of American States, and the victim of a formal diplomatic and economic embargo imposed by the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. Or so it has been in theory. In practice, ten countries, including Venezuela, Colombia and Argentina, have resumed diplomatic relations with the Western Hemisphere's only Communist government. Despite the embargo, trade between Cuba and OAS nations is growing rapidly, and a number of foreign subsidiaries of American firms participated...