Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passes for verity, run the gamut from out-and-out radicals like Anthony Flagg Prescott, hwo finds even FDR's second New Deal unabashedly capitalistic, to reactionaries like Timothy Prescott, Tory poet. Still, it isn't hard to tell where Fried's own sympathies lie; in Julian's words, "Mine was a family of antinomians, dissenters, gadflies and nay-sayers." Most of the Prescotts, at least the most articulate ones, fall to the left of the men they write about (Timothy's poetry, as it turns out, is egregiously...
...ship fitted with a tall derrick amidships and towing a submersible barge the size of a football field, sailed from Long Beach, Calif., toward an area in the Pacific 750 miles northwest of Hawaii. Publicly proclaimed to be a special vessel built by Howard Hughes to mine mineral deposits from the ocean floor, the Glomar was actually on a CIA mission approved by the White House. Its code name: Project Jennifer. Its aim: to salvage a Soviet submarine that had plunged 16,000ft. to the bottom of the Pacific in 1968 after an explosion...
...devices. Instead, the Government has put the vessel up for sale. Last week the National Science Foundation said it would study the possibility of using the ship for deep-sea research. The General Services Administration has also offered to lease the ship to firms interested in using it to mine minerals in the ocean-precisely what the Glomar Explorer was supposed to be up to when it first sailed off on its CIA mission...
...spite of the minor drawbacks, In These Times clearly has the potential to become a reputable leftist weekly. Some of its reporters and columnists are tops, and its list of sponsors is potentially a gold mine, if they actually come through with copy...
Nevertheless, the actors were hit hardest, he said, since "writers can write under other names, but an actor can't change faces--although some have suggested that I change mine...