Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Sudden Drama. The Soviet Foreign Minister declined to soften Russia's recently restated demand for the severing of all of West Germany's governmental ties to West Berlin as the price for easing Communist control of the isolated city's vital access routes. Both Nixon and Gromyko steered away from one subject that had presumably been settled: the "submarine base" allegedly under construction at Cienfuegos, Cuba. Under a secret agreement reportedly reached earlier, the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw the four submarine-refueling and supply vessels sighted at Cienfuegos in return for a U.S. promise to soft...
...tools used by man to control his environment often contain unknown dangers. DDT, for example, was once heralded as the ultimate pesticide, then was deemed an insidious killer. Now the U.S. Government finds itself in court defending a newer pesticide called Mirex, which conservationists claim has toxic side effects...
Tanned and rugged-looking, the 56-year-old grandfather still travels the globe, constantly preaching the cause of the Green Revolution (and also of birth control). Despite his evangelical zeal, however, he seems happiest at home in Mexico. After one recent trip, during which he visited a dozen countries in almost as many days, he arrived back at his farm late at night and looked at the cloudless sky. "It's a wonderful moonlit night," he told his haggard companions. Then, after seeing them off to bed, he stayed up until dawn, inspecting his fields...
...women equal-no number of women can make up for one absent man. In Orthodox synagogues, women are seated separately, and in Jerusalem they must worship separately at the Wailing Wall. Though women in Israel have fully equal secular rights and are even subject to compulsory military service, Orthodox control of such social institutions as marriage clearly favors the man. In the strict interpretation of the law, for instance, only a husband can grant a divorce. The Orthodox male attitude is perhaps best exemplified by his familiar daily prayer. "Blessed be thou, O Lord our God, for not making...
Crown thereby lost his first battle for General Dynamics. But early this year, the 74-year-old colonel, who served as an Army procurement officer during World War II, took the offensive in a second fight to control the huge, troubled defense contractor. Ironically, his chief obstacle was none other than the man he had brought in as General Dynamics' president in 1962: Roger Lewis, 58, who subsequently sided with the faction that forced Crown to sell...