Word: sweeps
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...medicine prize to Baruch Blumberg of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research and Carleton Gajdusek of the National Institutes of Health, and the economics prize to Economist Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 25), last week's winners gave the U.S. a clean sweep of the 1976 Nobel science awards...
...Phillies in three straight games for the National League pennant. By the time they took the field against the American League's Designated Luddites, the New York Yankees, they were playing for their place in the pantheon of the game's great teams. When the four-game sweep of the hapless Yanks was over, they...
...more important than the sum of money the Nobel Prize confers on its winners is the prestige that accompanies the laureate's wreath. So when ten Nobel prize-winners, including four from Harvard, last week accused President Ford of erroneously taking credit for the American sweep of this year's prizes, it was not surprising that their statement made national news...
...laureates' wrath was prompted by a comment Ford made at the award of the National Medals for Science earlier this month. According to the laureates, Ford implied that his administration was responsible for the nation's Nobel sweep, and that this was clear evidence that the country is not a weak one, despite Jimmy Carter's claims to the contrary...
Pucker-Safrai is fond of this Spanish-born artist; he has had 5 shows here over the past 6 years. The two series presently on exhibit, "Folklore" and "Circus," justify the gallery's committment; Kieff proves himself a master of polished bronze. The "Folklore" works, like tales, sweep through time and space. Symbolic continuums of metal, they demand time to trace their complex curves and planes, yet unify their motion in abstract patterns which seem as natural, yet are as carefully structured, as plot elements in a folk tale (three brothers, wicked step-mothers). "Ciecus" is more subtly rooted...