Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Staggering Sight. By the time the government finishes counting the casualties, the great Ganges cyclone may rank as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century-and one of the worst of all recorded history. The figures transcend normal comprehension and numb the mind. Officially, the toll at the end of last week stood at 150,000; the only natural catastrophe to claim more lives in this century was the 1920 earthquake that killed 180,000 in Kansu, China. Yet the government concedes that its count is far from complete and that newspaper estimates...
Last week in Warsaw, in a dramatic step toward conciliation, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Jedrychowski and his West German counterpart, Walter Scheel, initialed a treaty designed to restore normal relations between the two countries and capped it with a champagne toast. The treaty, said Chancellor Willy Brandt in Bonn, would be "a liberating step toward a better Europe-a Europe in which borders no longer divide. That is what the youth of our countries expect and we no longer want to burden them with the past. Instead, we want to give them a new beginning...
...irregular hours that are the city's normal working conditions provide built-in alibis for determined politicos. Some congressional wives elect to stay home rather than live in Washington at all?giving the capital a contingent of permanent "summer bachelors." But the motivated men of Government cannot afford to take three-hour lunches, and the traditional cinq-a-sept is out of the question for a 12-to 15-hour-day man. By all accounts, the sexual quotient of Republican Washington is low. The Democrats of the Kennedy and Johnson years?relaxed, open, pleased with themselves?were more insouciant about...
...first glance, such optimism seems premature. Upper Silesia is still blighted by strip mines and slag heaps. Its rivers remain gutters carrying the wastes of 4,000 factories. The veil of soot and gases is so thick in some areas that only 60% of normal sunshine ever reaches the ground...
...least 171 times in the past 76 million years, the earth's magnetic field has mysteriously faded in strength and then returned to normal with the North and South poles reversed. Scientists have long suspected that these reversals may somehow be linked with such old biological puzzles as the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. Now investigators from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory have added new evidence to the old speculations. They report that six species of Radiolaria-tiny marine animals-suddenly became extinct during or shortly after switches in the earth...