Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...transmitted back to earth. The entire round trip took only about 43 minutes, but the results may be momentous for all of physics. Last week, at a conference on gravity at Caltech, the experimenters reported that they had gathered dramatic new evidence in support of Einstein's 1916 General Theory of Relativity...
None of this is likely to comfort Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Quinn. Because of last week's turndown, Quinn must now take his case to the federal district court. His chances of success there have not been helped by the Supreme Court's action...
WHEN the biggest and costliest strike in more than a decade ended last week, neither side was particularly overjoyed by the outcome. After 58 days of standoff, leaders of the United Auto Workers and General Motors agreed on a new contract that the company says is inflationary. The union's hefty wage gain was less than the auto workers had hoped for, but they got more in fringe benefits than the U.A.W. leadership could have expected. If the strikers ratify the national contract this week, as is likely, and some sticky local issues are settled in the plants...
...terms of the three-year agreement represent something of a gamble for General Motors. In a major concession, G.M. acceded to a union demand for unlimited cost-of-living increases. If inflation is checked, G.M. will not have to pay out too much more in the second and third years of the contract. But if inflation continues strong, the settlement could turn out to be far more expensive than the corporation intended. The dangerous catch is that the new contract's other wage and benefit terms go far toward assuring the persistent inflation that the corporation most fears...
...corrosively partisan debate concerning them has just been joined by two scholar-essayistsPulitzer prizewinning Historian Richard Hofstadter, who died last month after completing this volume with the help of a young colleague, and Columbia Law Professor Telford Taylor, 62, who served with the rank of brigadier general as chief U.S. counsel at the Nuremberg Trials...