Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shipping writer, more than half the business done upon great waters is carried in the bellies of a new breed of sea monster that threatens not only the wonders of the deep but the teeming life of whole oceans. The monsters are V.L.C.C.s and U.L.C.C.s (for very large and ultra-large crude carriers), huge oil tankers that already range from 200,000 tons burden up toward 500,000 tons. Such ships are so long that they have been rammed at night by smaller vessels trying to steer through the gap between their bow lights and stern lights. They will soon...
...Wodehouse invented a plot and Waugh wrote a book round it, the result could hardly be more hilarious than this British mini-novel. The action involves the appointment of a feckless liberal politician as head of the ultra-conservative Porterhouse College at Cambridge University. When he proposes some changes-enrollment of women in the all-male college, for example-the faculty and staff staunchly resist...
...Nelson Rockefeller resigned last December. A poll published last month by Newsday, a Long Island newspaper, showed Carey leading Wilson by the surprising margin of 52% to 27%. Carey's strong showing has improved the once dismal prospects of his ticketmate: former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, an ultra-liberal Texas transplant who is challenging liberal G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits, 70, long (perhaps too long) New York's biggest vote-getter...
...felt they were fully "loaned out" to Britain, France and Italy. Other international monetary powers may be willing to take up some of the slack for a short while, but a real financing of Britain's 6 billion pound annual deficit could only come from the Arabs, and those ultra-security-conscious investors are hardly likely to invest very heavily in a country whose economic future must seem so unsettling to the capitalist...
...currently be independent, but he realizes that he must not completely alienate the generals. His Minister of Public Order, Solon Ghikas, has already promised that there would be no purges among the National Security Forces. Last week's signing of a Cyprus ceasefire agreement may have angered some ultra-nationalists but it may also have relaxed some of the tensions between the new government and the military, for the generals were no doubt painfully aware that it was the best that Greece could get in the face of Turkey's superior military power. The Geneva declaration was almost...