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Word: mindedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Critics see him as an irresponsible rabble-rouser out to destroy democratic government. To his admirers, he is the champion of the downtrodden, a political savior who has emerged from retirement to save them from what they see as despotic rule. The independent-minded son of a minor Bihar state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: J.P.: India's Aging Revolutionary | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

He was the classic absent-minded professor, a philosopher so immersed in his studies that he often seemed to lose touch with life around him. At social gatherings, he would stand alone talking silently to himself, moving his lips and smiling-although, said a friend, if someone interrupted his reverie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Revolutionary of Oeconomy | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

Near Sandusky, Ohio, NASA'S Lewis Research Center is putting finishing touches on a lOO-ft.-tall experimental steel windmill with two 62-ft.-long aluminum blades. When these blades begin turning in the summer breezes off Lake Erie later this month, they should produce as much as 100...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tilting with Windmills | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

CASTRO. Though Castro is still alive, it is not because the CIA did not consider various ways of doing him in. The design on the "maximum leader's" life burgeoned over a span of some two years into a corpus of schemes. As best the principals remember, the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: The Assassination Plot That Failed | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

There are three principal targets of the decree: intellectuals; the reform-minded clergy, including many members of the country's Protestant-run, worker-oriented, urban industrial missions; and university students, who have played a traditionally tumultuous-and sometimes irresponsible-role in Korean politics. All three groups are kept under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA/SPECIAL REPORT: The Long, Long Siege | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

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