Word: soon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kampala's suburbs with a sharp counterattack, had already moved out of the city to avoid entrapment. One of the first landmarks to fall was the notorious Makindye military police headquarters, where thousands had been tortured and killed by Amin's secret police, the State Research Bureau. Soon afterward, Entebbe Airport was in Tanzanian hands, along with one of Amin's ornate state residences near...
...State allocations. As a further move to curb gasoline demand, which is rising almost three times as rapidly as oil consumption as a whole, Carter announced a plan to bring state governments into the conservation act. He said that he would soon set strict gasoline reduction timetables for all 50 states, and that if they were not met he would ask for mandatory weekend closings of service stations...
...that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large Suprematist Relief (1920-26), finished a few years before he died at 27, lays no stress on its materials; it is a pure proposition of the kind of half religious ideal that was soon to be censored out of Russian art by Stalin. On the other hand, the work of Iwan Puni and Vladimir Tallin was virtually dialectical materialism transferred into art-"real materials," as Tatlin put it, possibly drawing on his own experience as a marine carpenter, "in real space." When Puni stuck...
...source of Brazil's Iriri River, he was clubbed to death by Kreen-Akarores Indians, who had learned to fear and hate strangers. As tragic as his friend's death was, it was also something of an awakening for Hanbury-Tenison. He went adventuring again, but soon found it pointless. He bought 600 acres of pasture land and moors in Cornwall, England, but saw little reward in the life of a country squire. Convinced he should help the tribal people he had seen, he joined in 1969 with Francis Huxley (son of the late Sir Julian Huxley), Viscount...
...Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) sub-committee on house systems may well decide to call on a plastic surgeon soon--it seems it may be time the freshman housing lottery had a face lift...