Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outskirts of Johannesburg. In three bitter days and nights of wild rioting and skirmishes between club-wielding, stone-throwing blacks and heavily armed police, at least 100 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured; only a handful of the victims were white. The turmoil spread to at least seven other segregated black townships surrounding South Africa's largest industrial city. At week's end the violence subsided, although police remained on guard in Soweto and other neighboring townships...
When Carter became the front runner, many voters wanted him to be more explicit on the issues. He attempted to respond by delivering a comprehensive but unexciting foreign policy speech in Chicago, an excellent speech at the United Nations calling for controlling the spread of nuclear arms, a stirring civil rights address in Los Angeles. He said, with considerable exaggeration, that he had position papers "on every conceivable issue." But it was not enough, and the failure to be more explicit cost Carter dearly in the late primaries...
Worsen they did. The ripples of Elizabeth Ray's profitable true-confessions caper continued to spread. The FBI, TIME discovered last week, had landed a current version of Watergate's Deep Throat. This anonymous source, who might be tagged Jack the Tipper, has taken to calling the FBI three to four times a day. In tones of outrage, Jack has demonstrated pinpoint knowledge about some of Capitol Hill's darker corners. Investigators believe that he may be a member of Congress or a legislative aide. "Whoever he is," says one official involved in the inquiry...
...homogenized in a blender. A 1 % solution of the resulting liquid extract was applied to human cells that were then inoculated with type I or type II herpes. The solution proved 99% effective in stopping viral multiplication. When the solution was applied to cells already infected with herpes, the spread of the virus was reduced by 50%. While the extract has not yet been tested on other types of herpes-like viruses that are responsible for such illnesses as chicken pox, shingles and mononucleosis, the Californians believe that it could also inhibit them...
Behind Bok's milquetoast image--a by-product of his disdain for the press, preference for nuts-and-bolts programs, and reluctance to speak out on issues he does not know well--there does appear to be a series of substantive programs. But it remains problematical whether Bok can spread his sense of purpose and create a sense of direction in the University. As he moves toward the end of his first decade in office Bok's ability to influence and inspire educators--something he has yet to do--may become the prime determinant of whether he is remembered...