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Cable television, the transmission of TV signals by wire instead of through the air, may still be in its infancy, but it is growing fast. Some 17 million subscribers, who are concentrated primarily in big cities, now use the system. That is an increase of 12.7 million since 1970. Moreover...
Black Power leader Kwame Ture, formerly Stokely Carmichael, called upon Blacks to acquire political consciousness to organize the overthrow of capitalism--what he called "a backwards, stupid, vicious system doomed to fall."
During the academic year 1979-80, Lamont and Hilles together ordered 487 titles to provide additional copies and 392 titles to replace worn books and to enhance library holdings with non-current books. Added together, these titles represent over 17 per cent of all titles bought for the two libraries...
World currency markets were relatively calm last week. The dollar and the British pound were the strongest of the principal currencies. The strength of the pound was due to Britain's plentiful North Sea oil deposits, which will be worth even more if petroleum prices again increase. It is...
The hunters--and the townspeople they protected--often relaxed at the pub. Taverns had yet to acquire the stigma they would later bear--as the DAR charitably allowed, early taverns were "for the comfort of the townspeople, for the interchange of news and opinions, the sale of solacing drinks and...