Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minor annoyances. Being "virtually forced to join" a union at his job is worth ?60, for example. To get due recompense for that and other slights, he destroys an important business letter, an act he values at ?6. His accounts soon grow more complicated, and Malry's figures mount accordingly. To help make up for "socialism not being given a chance" (debit: ?311,398), he dumps cyanide into a local reservoir, killing 20,000 Londoners (credit: ?26,622.7). As the plot progresses, Christie's ledgers carry forward an ever larger debt that society owes...
...life and philosophy and heightened consciousness take a hint from Dale Carnegie, a leaf from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and a volume from Kahlil Gibran. Thus enlightened, Jonathan is apparently reborn. He returns to his flock and spreads the good word in a sort of Sermon on the Garbage Mount: "Listen, everybody! There's no limit to how high we can fly! We can dive for fish and never have to live on garbage again...
Alfred S. Romer, professor emeritus of Zoolgy, died Monday evening in Mount Auburn Hospital after a brief illness. He was 79 years...
Major telescopes, from Mount Palomar's giant 200-in. reflector on down, will follow Kohoutek across the sky. NASA, too, will go all out, sponsoring Operation Kohoutek, a multimillion-dollar effort involving hundreds of scientists and the latest space-age technology...
...understandable why Britain's blacks are so bitter. Though Britain's 1968 Race Relations Act has made most forms of race discrimination illegal, complaints of the color bar in employment, education and housing continue to mount. There has been a steady growth in unemployment among West Indians, and the 1971 census revealed that unemployment among young blacks (many of whom have been educated in Britain and therefore expect more than their immigrant parents) is twice that of white youths, despite the fact that West Indians are not predominantly located in areas of high unemployment...