Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign, Mr. Beame made it clear that he would continue to support rent control. In fact, he recently has joined with us in the City Council in supporting a 4 per cent rent rollback. If Beame is a captive of the landlords, I wonder why his housing policies have been sharply criticized by Edward Sulzberger, the head of the city landlord's organization, both during the campaign and since his election...
...wonder that Egyptians now refer to Henry Kissinger as "the American magician." On his fourth whirlwind visit to the Middle East since October, the U.S. Secretary of State last week managed to 1) deliver to Israel a list of prisoners held by the Syrians since the end of the Yom Kippur War; 2) persuade the Israelis to offer Syria preliminary proposals for disengagement on the Golan Heights; 3) restore formal diplomatic relations between Egypt and the U.S., which were broken off in the 1967 Six Day War. Shuttle diplomacy, it seems, is still working...
...volume Myths of the Space Age, remains unpersuaded by what he sees through the Koestlerian keyhole. "After decades of research and experiments," Cohen observes, "the parapsychologists are not one step closer to acceptable scientific proof of psychic phenomena. Examining the slipshod work of the modern researchers, one begins to wonder if any proof exists...
...together with the goats. At the very least, the paranormal establishment has questioned the dogma, emphasized the ignorance and underlined the arrogance of modern medicine and science. Indeed, modern doctors have scarcely breached the frontiers of the mind. Science has all too frequently destroyed the layman's sense of wonder by seeking materialistic explanations for all phenomena...
What is more mind-boggling, Fitzsimmons has copped over one-third as many yea-votes as UCLA's boy wonder Bill Walton, who leads both West and East with an 88,422 total. The Bruins, despite recent hard times, have three others in the top 11 candidates west of the Mississippi: Keith Wilkes (3rd), Tommy Curtis (7th) and reserve Greg Lee (11th...