Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alamos is a majestic ivory mesa artificially painted onto the national landscape by men named Oppenheimer, Fermi, Bohr, Feynman, Kistiakowsky, Szilard and Fuchs. "At great expense, we have gathered on this mesa the largest collection of crackpots ever seen," General Leslie R. Groves told his assembled officers at the remote outpost in the New Mexico wilderness during the darkest days of World War II. "And it's your job to keep them happy...
...Cambridge, Mass., class is projected through such things as battered cars and withered clothes. Nuclear families here "are headed by a father who never had a stray thought, uncertainty or doubt," explains Father Ronald L. Bruckner, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Roman Catholic Church. "These are self-made men who, if they had a doubt, also had a standard deviation formula to solve...
...Tehran continued to tighten. The U.S. gave its blessing to extensive American business investment in Iran; in its heyday the list of major U.S. corporations with operations in Iran looked like a not-too-abridged version of the FORTUNE 500. A sizable army of American technicians -engineers, teachers, military men on training missions-moved into the country. President Carter in his press conference last week asserted that in the Shah's last days no fewer than 70,000 Americans were in Iran. Considerable traffic flowed the other way, too; Washington ended the last training programs for Iranian jet pilots...
Feelings grew so hot that Kissinger and Secretary of State Vance met on Monday last week for an extraordinary 70-min. conversation. Both men got their grievances off their chests-Vance complaining that Kissinger was gratuitously running down the Administration and Kissinger accusing the White House of unfairly impugning his character. The two men struck a truce: the Administration would stop criticizing Kissinger to newsmen, and Kissinger would tell his side of the story, once...
...Saudi troops blasted open the doors and charged the mosque, and the place became an inferno of fire and crossfire. No one knows how many died. Many Saudi soldiers were mowed down as they charged forward, chanting "To die in this battle is to enter paradise." Mohammed's men showed surprising skill in breaking up into small groups, setting up fields of fire, and counterattacking. Prince Sultan called for reinforcements...