Word: warring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enclosed in an inner envelope was an eightpage flyer captioned, "A Few Grains of Truth." The FBI memo says that the flyer is "highly critical of the American atom bomb project" and that it purports "to represent the shame and anguish of the American population on American preparation for war." The flyer exhorted, "There is no other way but for each firmly to resolve that life must be dedicated to peaceful endeavor...
...Business School. The largest pasta factory in Italy, it now produces more than a fifth of all the spaghetti eaten here. It is American owned and run according to all the newest methods. All steel and glass, humming machinery, it is a symbol of the new Italy, the post-war industrial revolution that has transformed a rural agricultural-based economy into a modern industrial state. Northern Italians have watched that transformation: the grandparents belong to a rural world, a preindustrial way of life that had continued almost unchanged for centuries and centuries. Their grandchildren are grewing up in a society...
Sanacore also said the UMass contest might have been Harvard's "BEST GAME OF THE YEAR." Still, though Harvard won all the battles, UMass won the war--they fired the only shot that counted...
...Establishment, Fast (4 last week) 2. The Dead Zone, King (2) 3. Jailbird, Vonnegut (3) 4. Triple, Follett (1) 5. Sophie's Choice, Styron (6) 6. The Last Enchantment, Stewart (5) 7. Shadow of the Moon, Kaye (9) 8. The Executioner's Song, Mailer 9. War and Remembrance, Wouk 10. The Green Ripper, MacDonald...
DIED. Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, 92, British wizard of aircraft design who invented the "bouncing bombs" used to destroy German dams along the Ruhr, a World War II exploit celebrated in a book and the film The Dam Busters; in Leatherhead, England. Sir Barnes' career began with his World War I work on a British counterpart to the German zeppelin, included his development of the first swing-wing jet aircraft and hollow aerofoil design, and ended in 1971 with his efforts to improve upon the supersonic Concorde, a machine he considered rather primitive...