Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alligator desk set given Kennedy by General Charles de Gaulle and a gold-and-silver bowl presented by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie). There are also 28 million pages of documents, 115,000 still photographs, 24,000 volumes and 1,200 recorded interviews. One million visitors are expected annually to trek to the handsome nine-story building of white precast concrete, overlooking Dorchester Bay on the University of Massachusetts' Harbor Campus...
...doubt the most intelligent participant in the complicated travesty of Gilmore's death. The writer has mobilized a shrewdness to match Gilmore's own punkish daring and jailhouse self-abnegation. Old Aquarius has silenced his bustling, manic, intrusive voice. His prose in this thousand-page trek is a Conestoga of American plain style: it is banal, idiomatic and somehow grainy, like the scenes in 1950s pornographic films in which the characters meet and part like neighborhood dogs, the men never taking their socks...
...peaceful Arawaks on Hispaniola, was immediately warned about the man-eating Caribs on nearby islands. The conquistadors reported that the Aztecs butchered victims, ate the flesh and fed the entrails to zoo animals. Henry Morton Stanley said he was beset on all sides by savage cannibals during his famous trek through Africa to find Livingstone. Margaret Mead wrote about the man-eating Mundugumor of New Guinea. There is only one thing wrong with all these reports: they come second or third hand, and are probably false. That is the surprising thesis of a new book called The Man-Eating Myth...
Peking is calling this ambitious national goal a New Long March, an echo of the 6,000-mile trek in the 1930s by Mao and his troops that eventually led to the takeover of China. To check on the progress toward this goal, TIME Science Editor Frederic Golden last month visited Chinese research centers, universities, hospitals, factories and communes on a 15-day, five-city tour with the first delegation of American science journalists to the People's Republic. His report...
After a half-time show featuring Star Trek music, ROTC propaganda, and Cornell boys passing girls around in the crowd above their heads, football action resumed with Cornell suddenly taking...