Word: powers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly eight years since his army-supported coup ousted from power U Nu, the ascetic contemplative former premier, Ne Win has led the country, which was once the world's largest exporter of rice, into a calamitous decline. For years he has effectively closed it off from the outside world, granting visas to tourists and journalists for stays of only 24 hours. Lately, in a general relaxation that included the release of most of his 2,000 political prisoners, he has allowed visitors to remain in Burma for three days instead of only one. After such a visit, TIME...
...managed to go into exile early this year. After feigning illness and fainting spells, he convinced the government that he needed medical attention abroad. Once out of Burma, he set off on a world tour denouncing the Ne Win regime, then retired to Bangkok to contemplate a return to power. But Ne Win's position with the army appears secure. If he chooses to take Burma farther left, no matter how disastrous the course, he seems strong enough...
Same Words. The American people, he said, "should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public-information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands." It was a promising introduction to a subject that needs discussion. But the only news conglomerate he mentioned was the Washington Post Co., which is hardly a giant in a field inhabited by the Newhouse chain (22 newspapers, seven TV stations, seven radio stations, 20 magazines), Scripps-Howard (16 newspapers, four TV stations, three radio stations) and the Knight group (eleven...
Instead, he encounters the world. A power-mad dictator, Shogo, establishes a great city but it is overthrown by Blimpish invaders blasting away with gunboats and Christian hymns. This regime establishes an inner tyranny of sin and guilt, and it too collapses. At play's end a nude man, all but drowned, clambers out of a river and towels himself off-the naked ape-a genius at survival and a dunce at self-transcendence...
...British Physicist Otto Frisch once said: "Uranium is a prima donna difficult to seduce." While other European nations incorporated American expertise into their atomic power industries, France under Charles de Gaulle proudly clung to its own nuclear technology. The country's four atomic power plants use natural uranium, the only nuclear fuel available to France in large amounts. The least fissionable of atomic fuels, natural uranium requires costly installations. The system has been a technical success but an economic failure. Says Marcel Boiteux, general manager of Electricité de France, the state-controlled power network: "The cost of electricity...