Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be of "very short duration." Certainly, he said, they would not last into the peak summer season. But Harold Denton, the NRC's reactor regulations chief, was more skeptical. Something of a hero in the nuclear field for his cool troubleshooting at Three Mile Island in the wake of March's accident, he insisted that all B & W pressurized water reactors were susceptible to the kind of failures that occurred in Pennsylvania. Of Lee's optimistic prediction, he said: "Perhaps he's ingenious and will come up with a way to do it." Clearly, Denton...
...their school to become the first state university system ever to lose federal funding in a desegregation dispute with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano did not want voters in tobacco country to become even angrier at him (and at the President) in the wake of his antismoking campaign. Besides, a legal row with the state could slow school integration...
...home base is the boom city of Houston, and the risks and rewards of the profession are reflected in a remark by one of its members, Chester Benge: "The oil business is one of the few businesses in the world where you can go to bed poor and wake up rich...
Henley's first-place finish insures him an invitation to the NCAA Tournament as an individual participant. The tourney will be hosted this year by perennial big-time power Wake Forest, which boasts Arnold Palmer and a score of slightly less illustrious touring pros as alumni...
...Crimson fired a team total of 321 to hover in 6th place, 13 strokes behind UConn and a single shot behind Providence. UMass was second at the halfway mark with a 310 aggregate. The winning quintet qualifies for the NCAAs later this month at the Wake Forest University Course...