Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not deny the accusation. The bearded, volatile Yakir, 49, has been the most outspoken of dissident intellectuals and one of Western newsmen's most accessible sources. "One of our main jobs," he said last year, "is to spread news of how some Soviet citizens are standing up for their rights and defying the authorities so that others may also be emboldened." He added, almost recklessly, "The Voice of America and the BBC are our megaphones...
Baseball fans were mystified. It was rather like an umpire with one thumb hooked in the air and the other hand spread out, saying, "You probably should be out, but you're safe, I think, kind of." For the third time in 50 years, the Supreme Court was considering major league baseball's exemption from the antitrust laws. In 1922 Oliver Wendell Holmes had stated for a unanimous court that baseball was not engaged in interstate commerce and therefore was not covered by antitrust regulations. Last week Justice Harry Blackmun held that baseball is, of course, engaged...
...music, films-are excellent. There is a warm, highly readable story on Philanthropist Louis Schweitzer, an intriguing discussion of world mass-transit problems, and a thoughtful piece on the future of education. Selden Rodman, the Haiti buff, contributes an upbeat piece on life in the Caribbean republic. A photo spread of aerial landscapes shot by Dr. George Gerster, a Swiss science editor, is beautifully laid...
...private criminal practice, and that the modest fees paid for the defense of indigents are not likely to attract many newcomers. States like New York, one of 19 that already provide lawyers for most misdemeanor defendants, have had to expand their public defender services. One approach that may now spread is the practice of the Washington, D.C., bar, which last year adopted a rule calling on every member under 60 and not a Government employee to take his turn representing indigent defendants. The lawyers get hourly fees of $20 to $30, up to a maximum of $400, in misdemeanor cases...
...same even in Polaroid's new small camera. A negative is exposed, then brought into contact with a positive print sheet, and both are drawn between a pair of rollers. In the process, a small pod of jelly-like chemicals attached to the positive is ruptured and spread across the sheet. Within seconds, the finished picture is ready. The other new feature of the Model 95 was Land's "exposure value system," which reduced the previously complex calculation of shutter speed and lens opening to a simple dial adjustment. Variations of it have since become standard...