Word: smithsonian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regularly sent through the mails, 10,000 or so now get some nonprofit subsidies. They range from shoestring religious and labor newsletters to the prosperous National Geographic (circ. 10.4 million), from the National Geographic Society. Indeed, some of the nation's best-known publications are not for profit: Smithsonian (circ. 1.8 million), from the Smithsonian Institution; Natural History (circ. 478,000), from New York City's American Museum of Natural History; Mother Jones (circ. 222,000), from the Foundation for National Progress; Science (circ. 151,000) and Science 80 (estimated circ. 400,000), both from the American Association...
...Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of a speaker recalling something that happened a long, long time ago, almost in another country...
...Crimson learned that research by John P. Huchra, lecturer in Astronomy and a staff member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and two other scientists indicated that the universe is significantly younger than previously believed...
...looks as if Washington is in for another McCarthy era. "I'm taking the kids' back to the Smithsonian later this month," says Frances Bergen, referring to her late husband Edgar Bergen's famous splinter group, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker. The treesome threesome will star at the Smithsonian's puppet exhibit opening in June. Dimwitted Snerd and spry old Klinker will return to California once the show ends on Labor Day, but in keeping with the late ventriloquist's wishes, Charlie McCarthy will remain at the Smithsonian to become part...
...Western campaigns is among the items of sartorial memorabilia stashed away in the "nation's attic," along with the coat Admiral Robert Peary took to the North Pole and the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater on the night he was assassinated. Now the Smithsonian Institution has chosen to enshrine the brown leather jacket that became Arthur Fonzerelli's trademark through seven hit seasons of TV's Happy Days comedy series. Actor Henry Winkler, 34, who went from unknowndom to stardom as Fonzi, not only made the presentation himself, but donned a tweed...