Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comes stealing up on us first in the wide eyes of very young children, who see Christmas shining a long way off. Older brothers and sisters are more nonchalant; they can be downright businesslike about it. A camera would be O.K., but how about a snowmobile? As the day approaches, the spirit settles over them, too, like fresh snow on a busy town. Parents come round last, rushing from toy stores to cocktail parties, muttering about the cost of evergreen trees, chilled by the cold glare of Christmas bills to come. By Christmas Eve, though, everybody is a willing conspirator...
...Carter failed to carry a single state against Gerald Ford in 1976 and where Kennedy has been strong, Carter is ahead 49 to 35. At the same time, Jerry Brown has virtually been pushed off the board as a serious presidential candidate. Carter leads him 71 to 16 nation wide...
...east, in Afghanistan, the Soviet role has been aggressive and heavyhanded. Within the past three weeks, according to U.S. intelligence estimates, the Soviets may have tripled their military assistance to the Marxist regime of Hafizullah Amin, which is fighting to hold its own against a country-wide rebellion by Muslim tribesmen. The Soviets are now believed to have 5,000 to 10,000 military advisers in Afghanistan, many of whom are actually directing some field operations...
...London-based organization Amnesty International has earned a reputation as the world's public conscience on matters of political repression. Last week the conscience spoke again, with a wide-ranging, 219-page annual report on 96 countries, offering little cause for optimism. The report's major findings: the torture of political prisoners is nearly universal, the sinister practice by some governments of "disappearing" political opponents (arresting them clandestinely) is on the rise, and there has been a global increase in political murders...
...easy to dismiss such tiny projects as tinkering?as it is easy to dismiss the wood-stove phenomenon. Crab wastes and the body heat of chickens are not going to save postindustrial America (though Ecologist Barry Com- moner believes that methane, generated from a wide variety of wastes and especially grown crops, could stretch declining natural gas supplies and help the U.S. bridge the 50-year period before it can achieve what he thinks possible: a completely solar-powered society). But the Department of Energy does not dismiss such ideas?and there may be wisdom here. What the woodburners...