Word: 70s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four months. He is not my ideological dream, but no one, to my mind, has given him much competition as a candidate. There is a lot more to this man than his critics give him credit for and, barring any catastrophe, he will be the Roosevelt of the '70s...
...Navy, which North had allowed to fall greatly below strength in the early '70s, is rapidly being expanded. The number of seamen will almost double, from last year's 16,000 to 28,000, and new ships are being outfitted at Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth. Press gangs are out nightly along the Thames to find able-bodied men-and some not so ablebodied. Relying on the peaceful words of the Bourbon Kings of France and Spain, the Admiralty has sent most of its active war vessels -24 ships of the line and 20 frigates-to form an ever...
...first half of the '60s: Ye Olde College Shoppes with owners who knew the boys' names like an Eliot House Master, Harvard pennants on the wall, and fine wood interiors. Gone, too, are the head shops, clothes stores and coffeehouses of the late '60s and early '70s, and with them the hippie vendors in front of Holyoke Center, removed by University edict last year over some Bicentennial nonsense or other. No matter: the chain stores have moved in and blended nicely, the hippies have adjusted themselves to market realities and gone really commercial, and some of the old college pump...
...like criticism," and recently it carried a series on rent control that backed the real estate operators. "We caught hell for it, but we got a discussion going," says Procope. A marketing man before taking over in 1974, Procope, 42, believes "the cry of the '70s for blacks is economic development and viability." That is also the cry of his paper. Its circulation is down from 82,000 in 1973, and it suffered major advertising losses...
...will listen, I'm a catalytic agent for change, a positive force for the reduction of political violence and economic racism in America." His position of not-so-chic radical makes it no surprise that white advertisers have not flocked to the Sun-Reporter. Until the early '70s, Goodlett subsidized his paper from the earnings of his medical practice. His view of the black press today: "It must be the matrix upon which the new image of black America is painted and formulated...