Word: provenances
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tufts case marks the first time the EEOC has taken a case to trial against a college or university since it was given the authority to do so two years ago. Now that it's been proven that it can be done, the commission may feel more prepared to take on a more formidable academic opponent...
...reasons for Kissinger's previous successes--and perhaps also a cause of his failure in Cyprus--is his fundamental desire for immediate stability rather than long-term solution. Kissinger has proven a master at heading off impending crisis for the time being, but the fact that few believe the Mid East will remain in peace more than a year indicates that the solution Kissinger engineered is far from permanent. Kissinger still is not willing to depart from the basic framework that has characterized American foreign policy since World War II. This is obvious in Cyprus, where he stayed...
...government. And the conduct of the American people has equally been a credit to the vitality of our Constitution. They have given Mr. Nixon the benefit of the doubt; they have not been swayed by the vocal minority or the powerful media; they have presumed the man innocent until proven guilty...
...right look to Nixon. He had never wavered in his loyalty to the President; ever since they had both been junior members of Congress, they had got along. Some cynics felt that the appointment was more Machiavellian than met the eye. With no experience in foreign affairs and no proven capacity for administration, Ford might make people think twice about dumping even a tainted Nixon. Very soon, though, Ford's candor loomed larger than Nixon's experience...
...says Medvedev, when about 40 medical, psychological and biochemical tests were run in 1972 on reputed centenarians in the U.S.S.R., a commission of gerontologists was surprised by the "paradoxical" finding that the function and metabolism of the oldsters were the same as those of people about 60 years old. Proven centenarians in the West exhibit a degeneration appropriate to their age, says Medvedev...