Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanoi regime has dramatized its desire for normal relations both by avoiding anti-U.S. polemics and by permitting more Westerners to visit the southern half of the now unified Viet Nam. Australian Journalist John Shaw, a former TIME correspondent who covered the war in Viet Nam for two years, returned to Saigon and cabled this report...
...Harvard will train them for the Chase Manhattan Bank and not a revolutionary cadre. It is only natural that Harvard's faculty mirrors this bias. The radical graduate students and assistant professors soon leave for greener, tenured pastures--just take a look at the Cambridge refugees at the U Mass Economics Department...
...door groupies do not throng after Frost. He is sallow-skinned, pouchy-eyed. His suits are rumpled; the thin brown hair barely conceals a balding pate. He gulps pills to avert the double vision he gets from migraines. He gnaws his fingernails. His voice is flat and distinctly non-U. He wears blue suede shoes...
Scientists have a cute name for it: "ploot." But plutonium, a man-made element created by bombarding uranium 238 with neutrons, has awesome properties. On the plus side, fast-breeder nuclear reactors, which are generally fueled with plutonium and U-238, can not only generate electricity but also produce more plutonium fuel than they consume. On the other hand, plutonium, even in tiny quantities, is searingly radioactive and ranks with botulin toxin as one of the world's most poisonous substances. Moreover, with as little as 12 Ibs. of plutonium, the right equipment and expertise in handling the stuff...
...were implemented in one way or another. And Champion, unlike two of Bok's other V.P.'s, had no major blots on his record. Yes, the power plant plan caused an unlikely alliance of opposition between Roxbury residents and the Boston Edison Company, but it is being built. Charles U. Daly, Bok's first vice president for government and community affairs, lost the Kennedy Library to UMass-Boston despite his long ties to the Kennedy family and his one-time post in the Kennedy White House. Steven S.J. Hall, Bok's first vicepresident for administration, displayed an extraordinary inability either...