Word: spites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures show that the population of mountain and Pacific states has increased by 24.1 % since 1960. v. an increase on the other side of the Great Divide of only 11%. Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West, young man," is still being heeded by young and old alike, in spite of the fact that the "frontier" is now posted at intervals with taco and fried-chicken stands. Ecologists point out that the very nature of the West-little water and enormous stretches of arid soil-makes it impossible to support the continued migration. Legislators, scientists and citizens are now openly...
...spite of the lessons learned on the playing fields of Whittier, President Nixon must now settle for considerably less than a win in Southeast Asia. Whatever "winding down the war" in Indochina eventually comes to mean, Nixon cannot have it look like an outright American defeat. Neither could any other postwar President, says Ellsberg in "The Quagmire Myth and Stalemate Machine," the principal paper in this cool, rigorously logical collection of essays, dramatic eyewitness reports and congressional testimony. Ever since the fall of Dien Bien Phu, says Ellsberg, the first law of political survival has been "Do not lose...
...spite of the guerrilla war raging around them, Bogsiders still insist on their fun. Last week a few hundred hardy gamblers turned up for the reopening of the Brandywell Dog Track, which is located at the far end of the Bogside. Undeterred by the occasional stray bullets whizzing overhead from the "nogo" Bogside area, three bookmakers did a brisk business in totes. Out of 49 hounds needed for the meet's seven races, only 28 had made it. The others were held up on Craigavon Avenue, where traffic was delayed for two hours while British troops searched for explosives...
...like all Ozu films, the plot is so plain, despite its variety of psychological and emotional levels, that it can be summarized as an anecdote. An old couple leave their home in the port-town of Shimonoseki to visit their children in Tokyo. But there they are intruders in spite of a fond reception: there is no place for them in their children's homes, and they are sent away to vacation at some hot springs resort. There, the boisterous carryings-on of young people drive them back to Tokyo; they then decide to return home...
WITH enlightened civic leadership and one of the nation's fastest-climbing skylines, Atlanta rode the urban-renewal wave of the '60s with pleasing-and well-publicized-results. But where many other cities have grown disillusioned with their downtown business districts-in spite of all the new civic centers, office buildings, freeways and other signs of progress-Atlanta, which in 1970 became 51% black in population, seems determined to use the first round of renewal as the down payment on a second, even bigger round in the '70s. Moreover, the courtly businessmen and politicians who engineered...