Word: seemingly
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...report suggests that it should be possible to reflect conflicting sides of an issue without necessarily giving those involved equal time. In fact, says the report, "the belief that balance, regardless of merits, is required seems to have had a dampening effect on willingness of many broadcast news organizations to treat controversial subjects." Other recommendations for TV seem less realistic. Among them: that the Government provide its Corporation for Public Broadcasting with $40 million to $50 million a year for news and public affairs programming. (Federal financing for C.P.B. in '68-'69 totaled only...
...more and more science fiction becomes science fact, the exploits of Buck Rogers seem less and less fanciful. Reviving an old idea, two University of California scientists have now proposed that astronauts follow in the footsteps of Buck and Wilma. Man's next target in space, Hannes Alfvèn and Gustaf Arrhenius argue in Science, should be one of the tens of thousands of asteroids -or planetoids, as Buck called them -that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter...
...adult world, to win is everything, but children's games satisfy different requirements. The participants "seldom need an umpire," write the authors. "They rarely trouble to keep scores, little significance is attached to who wins or loses, they do not require the stimulus of prizes, it does not seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Indeed, children like games in which there is a sizable element of luck, so that individual abilities cannot be directly compared. They like games which restart almost automatically, so that everybody is given a new chance. They like games which move...
Most of Patman's constituents seem less interested in his assaults on the Federal Reserve than in his success at bolstering the shaky economy of his piney-woods district by obtaining pork-barrel projects. A tireless worker, he goes to his office seven days a week, puts in ten hours each weekday. Despite his reputation for vituperative oratory, Patman in person seems more like a grandfatherly American archetype: Baptist, Mason, Elk, Shriner, Eagle and American Legionnaire (all of which he is). Briefly a widower, Patman two years ago married a Texarkana widow in her 70s, whom he had dated...
...first glance, McCrosky's orbital calculations would seem to support the theory that many meteors originated in the asteroid belt, a jumble of orbiting planetary material just this side of Jupiter...