Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...From the opening introspective Worden poem to the closing Mitchell observation-that the space program was worth the cost and effort if only for the awakened desire in the individual to spread the gospel of humanism-the article discloses the gentler instincts of man so often obscured by his more obvious desire for adventure and success. Like so many apostles, these splendid astronauts attest to a paradox: the more knowledgeable man becomes, the more he realizes his limitations, his ignorance and his insignificance...
...novel currently on the bestseller lists be financially "desperate"? That is Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn's own word for his own situation. His books are banned in the U.S.S.R. and his royalties are piling up in Switzerland, where he cannot get at them. As word of his plight spread, some unusual Samaritans offered to help. First came Hollywood Writer Albert Maltz, once jailed and blacklisted for refusing to tell a congressional committee whether he was a Communist. Maltz said that the Soviets owe him some $34,000 in royalties on his writing (The Cross and the Arrow), and should...
...Ghovandi railroad station, a 1 quarter-mile away, other refugees cluster around small fires. At nightfall, children and adults alike spread blankets out on the platform to sleep. Change Sampat Lokhande, a farm laborer, tells a familiar story: "The fields in my village had no water. I had to leave. How do I get food? Some of us beg. Some stay in front of grain shops and wait for the grain to spill. Then they scoop it up and hurry back here...
Under an agreement signed in Washington last week, the U.S. and the Soviet Union will begin construction of new embassy facilities in Washington and Moscow. The 550 Russians in Washington, now spread out in five buildings in the capital, will occupy a new compound that includes a twelve-story office tower and residences, to be built on a 12½-acre tract some time in 1975. The 300 Americans attached to the U.S. embassy in Moscow will get a similar complex on a ten-acre plot in the center of the Soviet city...
LIKE small-town America itself, the independent local bank has been fading away in many parts of the country, overcome by progress and competition from rich, efficient multibranch banking firms that are headquartered in big cities. In recent years, despite some Government constraints on bank expansions, the spread of large institutions to the suburbs and small towns has substantially quickened, investing major banks with ever more financial clout and raising howls from small bankers. As a result, the old arguments over how banking can best serve the economy and the public have burst into a controversy that will soon reach...