Word: retreated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a tone of idealism and engagement that emerges from Holton's approach to his field and its teaching. In person, he manages to hide it behind a convincing skepticism toward anything about himself, but the cynicism does not run deep. "Everyone would occasionally like to retreat into his research for two or three years," Holton reflects. "But a university appointment is a great place from which to get involved. A scientist's life here can be almost kalaidoscopic. It doesn't have to be, but the bounds of human experience can be very wide...
...told, it was not a very happy birthday for Powell, who turned 58 last week while vacationing with his House assistant, comely Corrine Huff, 25, at his Bimini retreat in the Bahamas. After nearly running down Lynn Pelham, a contract photographer for LIFE, with the old Washington taxicab he uses for buzzing around the island, Powell brandished a shotgun, snarled, "I'll kill you if you set foot on my property." With his telephoto lens, Pelham then snapped a picture of Powell stalking angrily into his house...
...soon roared into view, slowed down for the barricades and ran into a murderous ambush. Not one truck got through. Overhead, four Jordanian Hawker Hunter jets rushing to the rescue suddenly found four faster Israeli Mirages on their tails; one Hawker Hunter was shot down, the others beat a retreat. Four hours after the invasion began, the Israelis finally withdrew, sowing a path of land mines all the way back to the border. Both sides claimed only minor casualties, but total dead and wounded amounted to 100 or more, almost all of them Jordanians...
...which he was elected as a Labor M.P. two years ago. Characteris tically, Maxwell was the first member to make his maiden speech. "I was glad he waited until the Queen finished," sniffed one critic. Maxwell shrugs off such gibes. His ambition now, he says, is "to halt the retreat of our country." As a start, he is flooding the market with texts, handbooks, tapes and films to help companies cope with Britain's massive new effort to retrain industrial workers. He expects to reap another fortune...
...Austria, deploys 8/11ths of his forces around the home goal and leaves the attack to a minimal forward line of three forwards. When they score, it is a quick strike: the backs kick long to the speedy forwards who get off a shot before the opponent's defense can retreat...