Word: originality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What Ghana needs today is unity," he says, "no matter what one's origin or tribe." He has instructed his subchiefs to concentrate on local affairs. In return, Ghana's President, Colonel Ignatius Acheampong, has pledged to leave tribal affairs solely in the hands of the chiefs. Thus, when local student groups started to protest in June against a $2.5 million palace that Nana Opoku is now building in Kumasi, they were quickly told by Accra...
...Nobel Prize for helping to discover the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life, what does a scientist like Francis Crick do for an encore? He tackles something even bigger. With Leslie Orgel, of California's Salk Institute, Crick has now taken on the mystery of the origin of life. Writing in Icarus, a monthly devoted to studies of the solar system, the two scientists theorize that life on earth may have sprung from tiny organisms from a distant planet-sent here by spaceship as part of a deliberate act of seeding...
...letters he receives each day, 85% support the hearings in general and his performance in particular. Attorney John J. Wilson could not have done him a bigger favor than to call him a "little Jap." Since one-third of Hawaii's population is of Japanese origin, the state was indignant. There was even a boomlet for Inouye for President. A reader wrote the Honolulu Advertiser: "Inouye certainly has everything a President should have except a right...
Benditt has yet to explain the origin of the abnormal cell, which could result from exposure to a virus or chemical agent. His call for further study to determine if his hypothesis is correct is already gathering support. As one of Benditt's fellow scientists recently wrote: "In conversations with people, the first reaction is disbelief and ridicule, changing slowly to interest and logical reconsideration, and evolving shortly into amazement and enthusiasm...
...Roosevelt clearly had good reason to authorize the use of wiretaps in 1940 in matters involving "the defense of the nation." But his decision in the early days of World War II to intern 110,000 people in the U.S. only on the ground that they were of Japanese origin was obviously unjustified...