Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grayness of the day came the epochal desegregation decision; through the fever of the Kefauver hearings the acute viewer could perceive a glimpse of the Mafia mind. Amid the treacle of Your Hit Parade, a few vinegary notes could be heard from the vulgarian disc jockeys, Alan Freed and Dick Clark. They were the early life signs of rock, a message that the Broadway melody was finished. In the art galleries, Jackson Pollock outraged onlookers with his whorls and spillages. On stage Elvis gyrated, and on screen Brando steamed. In the audience, the kids began to coalesce; an epoch...
...Leaders. In addition, it seemed all but certain that the President would soon bring fresh leadership to the White House and name Alan Greenspan, a respected conservative economist and unofficial Nixon consultant, to succeed Stein as CEA chairman. The appointment will probably be announced soon. If, as expected, Greenspan is approved by the Senate Banking Committee, he will take up his new duties by September, when Stein returns to the faculty of the University of Virginia...
...Harris of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, Imperato has written a study of dog bites in New York City from 1965 to 1970. They report that more than 43% of the bites in the survey were by dogs weighing 50 lbs. or more. Confirming their findings, Urban Ecologist Alan Beck, also of Washington University, says that from 1963 to 1973, A.K.C. registrations of large-breed dogs increased dramatically (100% for German shepherds, 600% for Great Danes, 1,000% for St. Bernards...
...Australia, Millionaire Land Developer Alan Bond, pledging to win the Cup that American boats had owned for 123 years, ordered up a $2 million metal boat he named Southern Cross...
...Alan S. Manne, professor of Economics and Operations Research at Stanford University, will become a professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government this fall, the Kennedy School announced this week...