Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Check and Balance," says New York's ad miring Republican Congressman Barber Conable, suggesting further that this country has developed a sound understanding and appreciation of the counterforces needed within the Government to constrain careless or inexperienced power. "Arthur is a great politician," adds Conable. "He is a master of the pregnant pause. He knows when to clean his pipe. He can answer the most complicated questions with 'I doubt it,' and the world is thunderstruck with his wisdom. When he comes to testify before any committee, the whole committee shows up. He has the same effect...
DIED. S.L.A. Marshall, 77, a towering military historian who analyzed all the wars of modern America; after a long illness; in El Paso, Texas. "Slam" Marshall was seldom far from the sound of gunfire. After growing up in El Paso, he became a combat infantry officer in World War I. He covered the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II, he became the chief combat historian in the Central Pacific and Europe. Out of his experiences in the Korean War came his most esteemed books, The River and the Gauntlet and Pork Chop Hill. His writing was distinguished...
Smart little computers provide mental aerobics Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding!" The sound of a fire bell, imitated flawlessly and gleefully by a high-pitched human voice, informs the neighborhood that Moppet has conquered Machine. They are well matched: Lizie is small, going on eleven, with brightly lit hazel eyes. The vanquished mechanism is a small desktop computer called Comp IV, new this year at under $40, with flashing red lights...
From a cynical perspective Saturday Night Fever looks not so much like a movie as a merchandising assault on the youth market. The first film to exploit the latest disco craze, it stars a hot TV personality, John Travolta, and features a sound track overcrowded with highly pluggable Bee Gees songs. The sets are plastered with posters of Al Pacino and Farrah Fawcett-Majors; the script shamelessly ransacks American Graffiti and Rocky. The people behind Saturday Night Fever -or perhaps one should say the accountants-have not left much to chance...
...moon and every passing eye. Inside, the 59-story building looks as if it might have landed from outer space. Its vital functions are controlled by a battery of electronic mechanisms that, among other things, wash the air and launder the noise of the city with "white sound," an almost imperceptible brrr...