Word: spencer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thin on Research? Thus, the blackout may have proved a timely warning. "Think what one Russian with a pair of pliers could do," mused Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co. Chairman C. Spencer Clark. To others, it was a reminder that bigger systems may invite bigger blackouts, unless they are made more reliable. The suspicion among many was that the utilities, in their increasing reliance on pools to meet the ever-rising U.S. demand for power?it has doubled in every recent decade?have cut themselves thin on research and development that might have prevented last week's debacle...
Tuesday, November 16 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). The Mountain, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner and Claire Trevor, is based on an actual plane crash in the French Alps in 1950. Color...
...going on here," exulted Richard Nixon before 450 cheer ing Republicans at a $25-a-plate dinner in Arlington last week. "Something new and exciting is happening in Virginia." At which Nixon turned to the principal chemist, A. (for Abner) Linwood Hoiton, 42, a Harvard-trained lawyer with Spencer Tracy (circa 1940) looks and Lyndonesque vitality...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Adam's Rib (1949), with Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell and David Wayne...
...ties are suddenly severed: the lover leaves her, her former husband dies, and she is left with nobody to hate, nobody to love. "I am gone, she thought; they have taken me with them; I shall never return." Few readers will miss her. In her fifth novel, Elizabeth Spencer (The Light in the Piazza) demonstrates a delicate attention to the shifting, uncertain boundaries between illusion and reality. But her characters are merely attitudes or intuitions, and her sensibility a romantic smog that muffles all the harsh realities the author and her heroine cannot bear to face...