Word: uses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instructions are clear and simple. Do not use public transport on Aug. 21. Do not patronize shops or buy newspapers. Stay away from cinemas, restaurants and nightclubs. Decorate gravestones and national monuments. Wear black arm bands. At the stroke of noon, stop working, walking, driving and every other activity for precisely five minutes...
...home, Kuznetsov became convinced that his mail, reading matter and telephone were constantly monitored; there was one almost comic episode in which a voice on the other end of his line told him that he could not use his phone until the recording machine had been changed. After a mysterious fire in his study, he began to bury manuscripts. He suspected that every acquaintance was an informer. And he admits that he turned down his one chance to protest. When Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn asked him to sign the famous letter denouncing Soviet censorship that was presented at the 1967 Writers...
...shot, says Marello, "I couldn't keep my mind off the wives and children and the terrible anxiety they were feeling. I wanted to do something for the wives. So I decided to offer what I had-my houses." Although Marello declares that he will make "absolutely no use" of the astronauts' names, it is unlikely that NASA will allow the girls to accept the generous offer. In the past, the answer has always been: "Thanks, but no thanks...
...University of California in Davis, one of the world's major ecology training centers. He is also an activist. "How else can you tab a guy who is out making speeches every night and spending every spare minute writing articles?" A systems analyst who pioneered the use of computers for solving environmental problems, Watt is currently directing a $174,000 Ford Foundation-financed study of California to examine the effects of population growth on urban transportation, pollution, public health and welfare, natural resources and law enforcement. "If we can't lick the population problem," he says...
...research at the University of British Columbia -mathematical models of the relationships between predators and their prey. "Three years ago, I got stark terrified at what was going on in the world and gave it up." Now he heads the university's interdepartmental studies of land and water use, which involve agriculture, economics, forestry, geography and regional planning. "What got me started on this," says Holling, "was the profound and striking similarities between ecological systems and the activities of man: between predators and land speculators; between animal-population growth and economic growth; between plant dispersal and the diffusion...