Word: circular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international adventurer glides through a modern landscape as ugly and alluring as sin. George Levanter, an Eastern European refugee from Nazi and Soviet persecution, is a "self-employed idea man." In fact he works in some hazy free-lance fashion for a firm called Investors International and follows a circular itinerary from the Swiss Alps to Beverly Hills and back to the snow again...
...page circular detailing his case, Humes dismisses the felony counts pending against him in New Jersey as "trumped-up charges," as one item in "the repertoire of the campaign to diseredit" him as a serious researcher. He asserts that "the continued suppression of the use of cannabis in medicine is a scandal of gigantic proportions," and he affixes the blame for this state of affairs on large manufacturers of patent medicines and various clandestine intelligence agencies which have, he claims, sought to impede his research...
William McCurdy, coach of the men's track team, said yesterday he is very enthusiastic about the track facilities. "I hope we'll be able to say that this is the greatest indoor track facility in the world, better than most outdoor facilities," McCurdy said. The circular track has six three-foot-wide lanes and an additional six straight lanes, so that sprints and hurdles can be run at the same time as long distance events. The track was designed to provide the benefits of both strength and resilience, McCurdy added. McCurdy commented that running on the new track...
Even Odds. As it happens, October is also the month when the U.S. is scheduled to begin modernizing its 550 land-based Minuteman III missiles. An improved guidance system will be installed in the final stage of the missile. The system will double the accuracy, or halve the "circular error probability," of each of the 1,650 Minuteman warheads. The current version has a fifty-fifty chance of falling within 1,200 ft. of its target; the new model would be even odds to land within 600 ft. (see diagram...
...paths, that is, except the circular one of giving in to domination. This is a route well traveled by the prostitute, and Lynee Gore's portrayal manages to suggest the personal degradation that accompanies her submission to money. And when the characters do not give in to the Yankee dollar, other forms of domination are there to demoralize them--some rich group or figure to control these tenants' lives. The petty bourgeois landlord, played by James Young, is always present, always ready to evict those who hate him. So the question, for these tenants ultimately becomes one of self-respect...