Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back their financial contributions, and old-grad judges sometimes shudder to see student lawyers in their courts. Common Pleas Court Judge John Patrick O'Brien, class of 1957, normally deals with civil cases. He complains that "these fellows are altruistic, and to that extent their interests clash with mine because I have to keep the docket moving along. These fellows will take up the court's time arguing over a principle. It costs $100,000 a year to run a municipal court. We can't be arguing over principles." If Brockway and his youngsters have their...
...records his own deepening involvement with the experiments-an interest that finally led him to found his own community in northern Vermont. It was not an easy metamorphosis for "Robert the Writer" when the eternal problems of real sharing appeared. "I was unwilling to let go of what was mine," he writes, "my car, my money, my wife." After considerable agonizing, he managed to lose most of his hang-ups on personal possessions-though he did hang on to his wife. The basic lesson, says Houriet, is summed up in the words of a friend: "No more me, no more...
...nagged by small problems, Apollo 15 had set down in the midst of lunar highlands almost precisely on target. Their site in the Hadley Rille area at the edge of the mountain-ringed Sea of Rains is so varied that scientists are convinced it will prove a geological gold mine offering important new clues to understanding the moon and earth. The mission, to be sure, comes at a troubled moment in NASA's history (see box, page 14). But, as the astronauts crisscrossed the pulverized moonscape gathering priceless new knowledge, it was also a dramatic reminder that man's exploration...
...Soviet Cosmonaut Georgy Dobrovolsky's daughter Maria at the Kremlin wall mourning her father's death, he sat down and wrote his own longhand condolences: "Like your father I also have two daughters and their hearts go out to you as do Mrs. Nixon's and mine. But I know your father would want you to face his loss with a strength and courage to match his own. As your sister Natasha grows older I know you will help her understand how very proud of her father you both should...
Vivid Cameos. Little more than a dozen years later, he is an Academy Award winner and one of the few directors whose name appears above the title of a movie on the credits. "All the honors and glory a film director could hope for were mine at the age of forty," Capra writes in his rough-hewn prose. "I even made the cover of TIME...