Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission have expanded as rapidly as the industry it regulates. Established in 1934 to supervise telephone and telegraph companies and the broadcasting industry, the FCC now oversees a vast realm that includes everything from transoceanic cables to communications satellites. For more than two months, President Nixon has been searching for a new chairman to take charge of the commission's expanding responsibilities. Some time this week, the President is expected to announce his choice for the nomination: former Republican National Chairman Dean Burch...
...they complained of lack of funds-a shortage intensified by recent cutbacks in governmental grants-and proclaimed their support of Senator Warren Magnuson's bill to set up a National Institute of Marine Medicine and Pharmacology. In speech after speech they pointed out that the vast majority of all known forms of animal life are found in the sea, which they expect to yield a proportionately rich harvest of medically useful chemicals. Dr. Paul R. Burkholder, famed for his discovery of chloramphenicol* (in a Venezuelan soil mold) more than 20 years ago, prodded the pharmaceutical industry to speed...
...conservative estimate, more than 400,000 people ?the vast majority of them between the ages of 16 and 30 ?showed up for the Woodstock festival. Thousands more would have come if police had not blocked off access roads, which had become ribbonlike parking lots choked with stalled cars. Had the festival lasted much longer, as many as one million youths might have made the pilgrimage to Bethel. The lure of the festival was an all-star cast of top rock artists, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and the Jefferson Airplane. But the good vibrations of good groups turned...
...ideological message was as familiar as the pilgrim leader himself. Billy James Hargis has been stumping for the anti-Communist cause ever since 1948, when, as a 23-year-old independent Christian Church pastor, he discovered its vast potential. He has been finding auxiliary causes ever since: the godlessness of the United Nations, the injustice of forced desegregation and, most recently, the immorality of public-school sex education (TIME, July 25)-an issue that may well be responsible for most of the 25,000 new contributors who have joined the crusade in the past three months. All told, Billy James...
...Apart from his legs, his greatest strength lies in a command of natural science and history, and a dry, witty style. He blends sharp observation of topography, birds and beasts with an unusual feeling for the ancient human chronicle of a land inhabited for thousands of years. On a vast British army artillery range in Redesdale, for instance, he pointed out to a brigadier that Romans had operated large catapults in exactly the same spot 1,600 years earlier...