Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Italians must take, the Italians themselves shrug off personal danger as just one more situation requiring the ancient art of arrangiarsi (literally, to make shift) -getting the upper hand on life's many minor irritations. Since the country's wave of kidnapings developed in the early 1970s, 241 Italians have been snatched for ransom. Top executives remain prime victims. Two weeks ago, Movie Producer Niccolo De Nora was released after a record 524 days in captivity; his ordeal went on so long because his family reportedly had to raise the ransom ($4 million or more) in installments...
Lecture: "The Chinese Revolution in the 1970s." John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History Emeritus. 4 p.m., Emerson 105. Free...
...plenty of suitors. Last week Robert Hocq, president of Jeweller Cartier, offered to pay $65 million for it. Among other potential buyers are French cosmetics manufacturer L'Oreal and champagne producer Moët-Hennessy, which bought Christian Dior Perfumes when Boussac needed cash in the early 1970s. The main concern of Dior's management and the French government is that the prestigious label remain in French hands. "You can't separate the Christian Dior image from France's," says Rouet. "When an American woman pays for the Dior label, she wants to know that there...
Lecture: "The Chinese Revolution in the 1970s." John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History Emeritus. 4 p.m., Emerson 105. Free...
...economic conditions of the Third World, of course, are not uniform. The OPEC nations have become world financial powers, and a handful of once depressed countries, such as South Korea and Taiwan, are developing flourishing new industries. But the majority of LDCS have been knocked backward in the 1970s by a devastating one-two punch: oil price boosts that have raised the cost of running the most primitive factories and farm machines, and recession in the industrial world that has restricted markets for cotton, copper, cocoa, tin and other raw materials sold by less developed lands. In many countries...