Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...UNDERGO LIE-DETECTOR EXAMINATION...
...great nuclear names-Born. Hahn, Heisenberg-and hatched a Who's Who of U.S. science -Fermi, Compton, Teller, Oppenheimer. After the war, as one of Germany's few relatively unbombed universities, Göttingen got quickly to work restoring its reputation, but its greatest days probably lie ahead. Last week surveyors slogged through spring mud to measure Göttingen for a mammoth expansion, at an eventual cost of $250 million, which will make the university four times as big in area as the Lower Saxony town (pop. 80,000) that gives the school its popular name...
Some 760 billion tons of coal still lie beneath the U.S., and for a while it looked as if most of it might stay there. But persistent rumors of the coal industry's death, brought on by its own inefficiency and the threat of oil and gas. proved to be premature. Last week, as the National Coal Policy Conference met in Washington, coal company executives happily surveyed their expanding markets. It would have seemed absurd only a few years ago, but now they are expected to double their annual production by the end of the century, to 1 billion...
...CRIMSON argued that there are no effective restraints on HSA to protect the interests of the University. Neither the Dean's recitation of the board of directors (mostly, it seemed, local businessmen, past or present officers of HSA, or its founders), nor his charges of "lie" did much to allay my personal misgivings. As he is probably aware, the task of a board of directors is usually to promote rather than to restrain a corporation...
Dillinger himself was a longtime admirer of Douglas Fairbanks. When robbing banks, he vaulted over the partition to the cashier's cage rather than force his way through the door. He loved the gallant gesture: when he ordered a bank clerk to lie flat during one of his holdups, he insisted on spreading a teller's smock for her on the floor...