Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attraction for visitors was the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife, spread across 50 acres along the Washington Mall beside the 2,000-ft. reflecting pool. The festival celebrates and demonstrates ethnic and cultural diversity in American life, from Ukrainian folk dances to Indian lacrosse matches. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angelo took in the sights...
...nuclear genie stubbornly refuses to return to its lamp. International conferences and agreements have tried to stem the spread of atomic weapons, but the nightmare of potential nuclear holocaust persists. Recent events, in fact, suggest that the dangers from nuclear proliferation and the atomic arms race are probably greater now than at any time since the first mushroom cloud rose over New Mexico's desert near Alamogordo three decades ago. Last week, for instance, West Germany agreed to sell Brazil facilities and technology that could enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...Geneva conference adjourned without taking any concrete steps to strengthen the treaty. Nonetheless, tougher measures to monitor the spread of nuclear technology may still be possible. In mid-June representatives of the U.S., Soviet Union, Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and Canada (the so-called nuclear suppliers club) secretly gathered in London for their second meeting this year. The Bonn-Brasilia full cycle deal was apparently on their minds; it is believed they reached a consensus for drafting new controls for the transfer of nuclear supplies and technology. A new code, for instance, might force nuclear equipment buyers-like Brazil...
...would be willing to admit that there is more at work here than sheer greed. The Bicentennial Commission's decision to split the festivities between a number of cities was of course a politic one--maximize the number of places where people can spend money, spread the wealth, and make everyone happy except maybe a few crackpot citizens who don't want hordes of tourists tramping over their community). But it was also an appropriate decision because it recognized the need to bring into all this Bicentennialia as many people as possible. If you don't bring them in, they...
...Manhattan, sold his house in the suburbs and in 1946 moved his family to a farm in central Pennsylvania. Then he began to do what he had always wanted-plant trees. Jones had a green thumb, his seedlings thrived, and word of his tree farm began to spread. Consequently, after Pennsylvania passed a law in 1948 requiring strip miners to refill and replant the land they had ravaged for coal, company officials came to him for help. "Won't be a damned thing grow," they said. "But go ahead and plant it. That's the law." Under Turk...