Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Naturalization Service and the Department of Energy. Wherever the officials went, they got a different reading on Carter's intentions. They reported home that the U.S. "apparently has no clear or positive policy ready, either for Mexico or the rest of Spanish-speaking America." Indeed, some aides thought Carter's final decisions on several major matters might actually have to be made during the 4½-hour flight to Mexico City. Nonetheless, the broad outlines of what he will seek are known...
Perhaps, as many of Carter's advisers believe, the President has no other alternative than to adjust American response to "the new realities" of world power. That, however, is a difficult thought to assimilate in a nation so rich and capable. Worried about the national spirit, Author James Michener was in town a few days ago to urge further space exploration. He eloquently posed the longer concern that is now in our national dialogue: "There seem to be great tides which operate in the history of civilization, and nations are prudent if they estimate the force of those tides...
...Moonies were out in force on Capitol Hill last week. Outside the Russell Building the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's disciples had a band oompahing in protest; inside, they packed the gallery, unleashing standing ovations, boos and shouts of "Liar!" as they thought the testimony warranted. The occasion was an unofficial hearing on "cults," presided over by Republican Senator Robert Dole...
...physicists thought Einstein's lonely quest was hopeless, and in fact he never succeeded. But Einstein was convinced such a basic harmony and simplicity existed in nature...
...manufacturer of electrochemical products, for straying from the path of Jewish orthodoxy. But this phase passed soon after he began studying science, math and philosophy on his own. He was especially enamored of a basic math text?his "holy geometry booklet." At 16, he devised one of his first "thought experiments." These can only be done in the mind, not in a laboratory, and would eventually lead him to his stunning theories. In this case, he imagined what a light wave would look like to an observer riding along with...