Word: straits
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Odegaard added strong departments of genetics and nuclear engineering, strengthened Washington's already respected schools of fisheries, forestry and Far Eastern studies. This week a new $3,000,000 oceanographic vessel for the university is en route from Boston; later it will explore the bottom of the Bering Strait. Washington's medical school is now so respected that 75% of Harvard's 1964 medical graduates applied for internships in Seattle. Enrollment has grown to 25,000. Odegaard has raised admission standards for liberal-arts students and has sharply upgraded undergraduate instruction to catch up to strong graduate...
Jerks & Gangsters. Indeed, from Cape Corse to the Strait of Bonifacio, the 114-mile-long island, which lies just 105 miles southeast of Nice, is little more than scenery. The snow-topped mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering...
Frivolous & Sacrilegious. Brought up in the thrifty, strait-laced atmosphere of colonial Boston with its population of 18,000, Copley had no great art works to study. Art was held to be frivolous, even sacrilegious, except for sign painting and portrait limning. Complained Copley: "Was it not for preserving the resemblance of particular persons, painting would not be known in the place. The people generally regard it no more than any other useful trade...
...Russian takeover of the huge British base at Singapore would not only produce "a stalemate" on the Malayan peninsula, as Lee observed, but also block the strategic Strait of Malacca and disrupt the entire balance of power in the Southeast Pacific. The idea was all the more surprising because a) Britain has no intention of leaving anytime soon, b) the U.S. has its hands full in Viet Nam, and c) the Soviet Union is so monumentally uninterested in Lee's problems that it has not even troubled to recognize the infant nation in the six weeks since...
...anonymous buildings popularized by Mies van der Rohe. With the inspiration of Le Corbusier's massive concrete government buildings in Chandigarh and Niemeyer's skyward-lofting Brasilia, architects at last felt free to conceive of civic structures as needing neither to be placed under a dome or strait-laced into an office-building suit. Revell's entry came closest to what the judges were hoping for-a civic grouping that was both symbolic and functionally practical...