Word: 1970s
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...largest metropolitan areas have not grown in the 1970s, and others have actually declined, notably the metropolitan areas of Cleveland, Savannah, Seattle, St. Louis and Pittsburgh. Rural counties that were losing population in the 1960s show the biggest gains. "The more remote kinds of places," says Morrison, "those that used to be regarded as 'nowhere,' have be come 'somewhere' in the minds of many migrants...
...prayerfully. The sooner heavy snow falls, the more snow tires they can expect to sell. To their dismay, recent winters have been unusually mild; on top of that, seven states have banned the metal-studded tires that accounted for 40% of all snow tires sold in the early 1970s. More states may well enact similar laws on the ground that the metal studs tear up highway surfaces. As a result, snow-tire sales have melted steadily, from 19.1 million tires in 1972 to 17.5 million in 1974; this year's sales may drop below 15 million...
These results are consistent with the history of the California farm labor battle. When Chavez first began organizing grape and then lettuce workers in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he found bitter opposition to his union from many workers and little support from most others. Many farmworkers felt they could do better on their own rather than through the union and resented Chavez's plan to impose a tyrannical hiring hall on them. The threatening, intimidating and often violent tactics employed by UFW organizers against recalcitrant workers only served to strengthen this opposition...
...attentions to the NSA last week. In Washington's U.S. district court, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a $500 million class-action suit charging the NSA ,and CIA with running a large and illegal spying campaign against antiwar elements in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The suit was brought on behalf of 7,200 individuals and 1,000 groups on which the two agencies supposedly kept files, monitored calls and cables and opened mail. Among the defendants are four communications companies-RCA Global Communications, ITT World Communications, Western Union and American Cable and Radio Corp.-that allegedly...
Some recipients of the so-called "10/80" cards, which are valid through October 1980, no longer hold Corporation appointments or are scheduled to leave Harvard during the 1970s...