Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Helen Suzman, who received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1976, ask only for a limited franchise for blacks, based on criteria like property or education--in a country where blacks cannot own the land their houses stand on, and where the black schools are hardly worth attending. (I wonder whether Harvard would ever grant an honorary degree to Nelson Mandela, the great black South African who spoke out for freedom. It seems unlikely; Mandela could not come to receive the degree in person, anyway, because--like so many South Africans, black and white, who too strongly have denounced apartheid...
...editors) with opinions bang out its byline-less features, the author(s) of its Nov. 6 cover story, "The New U.S. Farmer," had obviously studied up on his Adam Smith economics and his Department of Agriculture (USDA) statistics in preparation for this defense of U.S. agriculture, "the productivity wonder of the world." Couched in Timese idiom, readers might almost be lulled into believing this bland prose. But beware -- it is really a simplistic, inaccurate polemic dressed up as objective journalism. It is Time at its myth-making best...
...trying to gain undue influence in the U.S. Nonetheless, some of the resistance to the U.S.C. center seemed more emotional than anything else. Jewish Businessman Allen Ziegler, a U.S.C. alumnus,, announced that he had sent back his lifetime membership card in the Alumni Association in protest. Said Ziegler: "I wonder where they're going to put the mosque...
...planned corporate support, and Fluor's Riyadh connections, caused some to wonder whether the center, under so loose a rein, would truly qualify as an academic enterprise. Asked a faculty critic: "Are we following an industrial model or an academic model?" Such doubts were aggravated by the fact that Hubbard presented the planned center to the faculty senate as a fait accompli, leaving no room for debate. Then, too, there was Fluor's ambiguous role. Said he: "People can say I have selfish interests, and obviously I have some. But I believe any time information is available, better...
...until we are a round, eight-man "star," falling at 120 m.p.h. We hold this for 5 sec., then the eight others fly in, attempting to dock with their hands gripping our ankles, turning the star into a "snowflake." I look about and cannot help grinning at the wonder of it: all of us up here hurtling through the sky together. Jonathan Livingston Seagull in his wildest imaginings could not have conceived of it. At 4,000 ft. we break apart, "dump" our parachutes and float to the airport below...