Word: heights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger's assistance to the FBI while at Harvard is also startling. Harvard faculty rarely volunteered information on their own to investigative officers; even at the height of the McCarthy era, contact with the bureau occurred only when FBI agents approached faculty members for routine security clearances...
...future independent government in Cambodia center on the irrepressible Prince Sihanouk, who wanders in exile between Peking and the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Sihanouk had been put under house arrest by the Pol Pot regime when the former Chief of State had boldly returned to Cambodia at the height of the Khmer Rouge terror. He re-emerged just as Phnom-Penh fell to the Vietnamese invaders last January. He appeared at the U.N. to make an impassioned speech in favor of Cambodian independence in which he compared Viet Nam to a "starving boa constrictor leaping on an innocent animal...
...kelp?" he once demanded of a bewildered porter), but was a first-class action-film director (The Jungle Book, Sahara). Vincent, Author Michael Korda's father, was an art director who could do the spectacular on a shoestring but never abandoned his bohemian ways. At the height of his career he sometimes wore Alex's hand-me-down suits without bothering to get them altered...
...issue in a lot of densely populated cities around the country that all start to look like Manhattan," City Councilor Francis H. Duehay, who sponsored the question, says. He adds that possible regulations would invoke height and setback limitations to encourage appropriate development...
...will pick a mayor tomorrow and the names on the ballot will look very familiar. Incumbent Kevin H. White is seeking a fourth term and State Senator Joseph F. Timilty is trying for the third time to unseat him. Timilty nearly beat White in the 1975 election following the height of the Boston busing crisis, Watergate, and a series of attacks on the ethics of the White administration. The outcome of tomorrow's contest hinges on Timilty as the alternative candidate and on the changing nature of the city's population...