Word: wheeler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest in his scientific work. Before his death in 1955 at 76, Einstein had called himself a "museum piece," a fossil who had long since slipped out of the mainstream of physics. Indeed, his greatest work, general relativity, fell into an intellectual limbo. Explains University of Texas Physicist John Wheeler: "For the first half-century of its life, general relativity was a theorist's paradise but an experimentalist's hell. No theory was more difficult to test." Physicists turned to other concepts, mostly concerning atomic structure, that could be more easily verified and had more applications...
...Chevy's Blazer with nearly 24% of the market, followed by Ford's newly revamped Bronco with 21%. Next year U.S. automen expect to produce 1 million four-wheel-drive vehicles. The field has become so attractive that even Mercedes plans to enter with its own four-wheeler by next summer...
Democrats also lost two hotly contested gubernatorial races. Carter stumped for wheeler-dealer Banker Jake in Tennessee, but he was upset by Republican Lamar Alexander, who walked 1,000 miles across the state to conquer his reputation for aloofness. Texas activist Attorney General John Hill, who had toppled Governor Dolph Briscoe in Democratic primary, eschewed Carters help. But he too was upset, by Oilman William Clements...
...sassy, sophisticated - and shabby. Its 3 million people are uniquely exposed to the outside world. Within hiking and swimming distance are British-ruled Hong Kong, where many thousands of mainlanders have relatives, and Portuguese-administered, anything-goes Macao. The twice-yearly Canton Trade Fair lures swarms of foreign wheeler-dealers, from Macy's and Neiman-Marcus, Fiat and Hitachi. Yet Canton is no showcase. The Cantonese do not radiate the physical vitality of most urban Chinese; many are poorly clothed. There are more people milling aimlessly and noisily around than in other Chinese cities. The Pekingese call the Cantonese...
...blacks boast eight seats. There are no chicanos on the Los Angeles city council or the Los Angeles County board of supervisors. The sole California Mexican-American representative in Congress is Los Angeles Democrat Roybal. (Roybal has admitted that he "probably" pocketed a $1,000 payment from South Korean Wheeler-Dealer Tongsun Park. The House ethics committee has officially censured Roybal for that involvement...