Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the DP camps of Europe, from the remote wastes of Yemen, from the middle-class suburbs of England and America, Jews poured into Israel, were declared citizens, and went to work. The population tripled in 16 years. Supported by massive private donations (more than $2 billion) from world-wide Jewry, by equally massive U.S. aid ($1.6 billion) and by reparations payments from West Germany ($822 million), the nation sprang almost overnight from a picturesque wilderness to an enclave of clanging energy. Deepwater ports were dredged, power and irrigation plants built, modern cities and industries created. The desert bloomed...
Last week the Supreme Court junked both state and federal use of the mere-evidence rule in a wide-ranging opinion that kept Bennie Joe Hayden in prison and cheered prosecutors across the country. Speaking for the six-man majority, Justice William J. Brennan held that the Fourth Amendment is primarily aimed at protecting privacy, not property. Over a hot dissent by Justice William O. Douglas,* who predicted police abuse, Brennan suggested that the mere-evidence rule did not protect privacy-and it surely prevented police from using the fruits of a reasonable search. Even so, Brennan warned police...
...Light Means Death." The work of Mary Bauermeister, 32, is far more subtle and complex because her subject is not the wide blue yonder but subjective space-the difference between seeing and remembering, between appearances and reality. The daughter of a Cologne genetics and anthropology professor, she works today in the U.S., building extraordinary constructions that combine lines and squiggles, notes and letters, painted wood hemispheres and optical-glass lenses that jiggle and twist the viewer's eye as he walks...
...spoken man who joined U.S. Steel in 1937 as an industrial engineer at its Youngstown, Ohio, works, Gott moved quickly through a host of managerial positions at other company plants before returning to Youngstown as general superintendent in 1951. Two years later, he assumed the first of several company-wide posts, became executive vice president for production...
...photograph, is Arthur Godfrey-a reminder of the role he played opposite her in The Glass Bottom Boat. But such inside jokery is about the limit of Caprice's caprice. The rest of the time it takes its story all too seriously, offers curiously unexciting murders and a wide choice of uninteresting villains...