Word: rancor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hummed quietly with the intellectual energies of men like Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Now the halls of its large Georgian central building, set on an isolated wooded hilltop near Princeton University, are filled with outraged mutterings about "breach of confidence," "contemptible conduct" and "second-rate scholarship." This uncharacteristic rancor surrounds an epic struggle between a majority of the institute's faculty and its director, Economist Carl Kaysen...
...soon as he was elected chairman, he chatted with McGovern and Ted Kennedy. Last week he saw George Wallace and made plans to talk to George Meany, Edmund Muskie and Humphrey. "The first thing we've got to do," he says, "is to take the bitterness and rancor out of our political discourse. It started at Chicago in 1968 and it has never abated...
...complex. Indications are that the Russian exodus is much larger than Western watchers had first anticipated. It now seems likely that up to 90% of the 15,000 to 20,000 Soviet men (and women, in communications units) stationed in Egypt may leave. The first departures were not without rancor. At least one fight between Soviet and Egyptian soldiers was reported; newsmen attempting to take pictures of the exiting Russians had their cameras smashed...
Meanwhile, relations between the Arab lands-never harmonious at best -were severely strained by the assassination of Jordanian Premier Wasfi Tell in Cairo. The United Nations was also alive with rancor as debate got under way on an Egyptian-sponsored attempt to force Israel to reopen talks under U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring...
Toward Phase III. For all that, the debate and even rancor of the past three months have produced a program close to the one long urged on Nixon by many economists, including a majority of TIME'S Board of Economists. "It is a good, constructive and reasonable start," says Walter Heller, former head of the Council of Economic Advisers. The biggest question of Phase II is whether the panels of men named by the President to administer his plan can convince businessmen, workers and consumers that the controls are being handled strictly yet equitably. If they...