Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kiss-your-sister draw. For one thing, Argentina's inflation rate during the past year has been a staggering 170%-highest in the world. More important, the Argentines have survived-most of them-a decade in which the disastrous Juan Peron returned from 18 years in exile to spread economic and political chaos. It has been a time in which the left-wing Montoneros murdered, kidnaped, tortured and spread terror at will, and in which the present military junta of President Jorge Rafael Videla has savaged the Montoneros and the more reasonable left as well by murdering, kidnaping, torturing...
...prodigy of Perry Mendel, 56, a stocky, effusive former real estate developer whom some call the Colonel Sanders of child care. He opened the first center in Montgomery in 1969, pouring in $15,000 of his own money and $185,000 from assorted investors. The company has spread to 23 states, swamping immature competition (La Petite Academies, with 115 units, is a distant second). Kinder-Care is growing almost daily, and two weeks ago, Mendel announced that his company will acquire for stock Living and Learning Centers. Inc., which now operates 33 centers in New England...
...half years ago, Beatty began building a mansion near his pal Jack Nicholson's spread on Mulholland Drive; there isn't a soul in Hollywood who believes that Beatty will ever move into it. "There's no anchor in Warren's life," observes one friend. "Warren is always on the go," says Arthur Penn. "He travels light and takes one small suitcase from coast to coast. I guess you'd call him a very rich migrant worker." Last week Beatty arrived in New York to organize the advance screenings of Heaven Can Wait and harass the Paramount sales force with...
...government-sponsored beer halls, or youths-rebellious dropouts from inadequate, segregated schools-furtively passing marijuana joints back and forth on dusty street corners. The object of the tours is to show foreigners that Soweto is "peaceful" again, following the epochal riots that began there two years ago, spread to other townships and eventually killed 618 people. Last week TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter paid an anniversary visit to Soweto, which has become a symbol of black anger and frustration. His report...
...difficult to identify. At the turn of the century, a horse called Clever Hans gave demonstrations of reading and factoring. By nodding and shaking his head and by tapping his hoof, Hans answered questions put to him by his owner, a German mathematics teacher. The animal's fame spread, until an examining board of skeptics discovered that Hans was cued by the gestures of his trainer. It appears that he made inadvertent movements whenever Hans reached the correct number of nods or taps, and that was enough to tell the animal to stop...