Word: normans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EDWARD TELLER, scientist: Biologist Norman Borlaug, who with his colleagues developed a strain of wheat that is helping to feed the world. The most important man who brought refugees to this country, from Hungarians to Indochinese, is Leo Cherne, executive director of the Research Institute of America. Dixy Lee Ray, the Governor of Washington, is a politician and a scientist who pulled the Atomic Energy Commission out of a deep mire by reorganizing the agency. She made many enemies, and had no support, but became the Governor of a state...
...growing scarce. In desirable areas of such cities as New York and Los Angeles, the vacancy rate is under 1%, and landlords are using the shortage to vet prospective tenants and refuse those with modest incomes. Finding an apartment requires tramping the streets and often bribing doormen. Reports Norman Kailo, president of the New Jersey Association of Realtors: "Young marrieds are beginning to double up, and there are a lot of illegal conversions of one-family units into two-family...
...tidy example is the backyard of William Thackeray's great-granddaughter, Belinda Norman-Butler, in London's Kensington section. It is a cozy...
...Noyce occasionally slips into sappiness, he finishes with a sentimental flourish equal to Norman Rockwell. When Maguire refuses to sell out to corporate forces, you can't resist a smile and a heartthrob at lines like: "He's running towards a precipice with his eyes wide open." "No, he's just a bit old-fashioned...
...dormitories, the University is shutting off hot water at night, putting "restricters" on showers to limit the amount of water used, and watching water temperatures more closely, Norman Goodwin Jr., manager of utilities, said yesterday. said in an interview in The Black Panther...