Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board the flight at Rome. In seconds, they opened a suitcase and pulled out Czech-made VZ 58 lightweight submachine guns from which the butts had been removed and half a dozen grenades of a new type whose shrapnel bursts with devastating effect after the initial explosion. Standing spread-legged and back-to-back, they coldly began firing from the hip into the crowd of deplaning passengers and bystanders, sweeping the hall from side to side. When they had emptied their first magazines, they lobbed the grenades at groups of tourists and airport attendants, then reversed the magazines in their...
Five years ago, a parliamentary commission recommended that the staff of the Fine Arts Administration be tripled and its funds increased to $440 million per year, with an additional $2 billion spread over the next decade. This never happened, and the results have been tragic. Italian museum and church security is so poor that from 1968 to the middle of 1971 more than 3,000 works of art vanished. In the first three months of this year, 1,598 pieces were stolen, ranging from candlesticks to paintings by Titian. An estimated $10 million worth of archaeological material, from Etruscan vases...
...stellar faculty but millions of dollars in research grants. "Those were the years the cookie jar was open," says U.C. Riverside Vice Chancellor Carlo Golino. "All you had to do was dig in and pull out a new laboratory." Toward the end of that decade, however, student turmoil spread from Berkeley to other California campuses-caused in part by youthful dissatisfaction over the rapid growth of the mega-university -and then came the recession, bringing harder times to many of the nation's colleges. Says U.C.L.A. Chancellor Charles Young: "The fact that some of the problems of our universities...
Over the years, as they spread into other states and increased their numbers to about 60,000, the Amish have still clutched that religious freedom doggedly. As one result, they can stand as heroes to laissez-faire conservatives on the one hand and to hippie-type communal dropouts on the other. Though they are farmers, they steadfastly refuse farm subsidies. They do not need, or want, welfare payments of any kind. They refuse to pay Social Security taxes or accept Social Security benefits: care of the elderly, they insist, is their religious duty. They do not want to grow rich...
...Francis) Perry Wilson is a farm boy who went to the big city 40 years ago and struck it rich, but he never quite left the farm. Now 57, the voluble Wilson still visits the family tobacco and cotton spread near Spray, N.C., that he owns with his three brothers. More important, as chairman and chief executive of Union Carbide Corp., he is turning the nation's second largest chemical company into a much faster-growing supplier to farmers. As he puts it, Carbide is "developing chemistry-based products to capitalize on the mechanization of agriculture...