Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ROAD building that took place at Harvard began, rather appropriately, with a farm worker cause early in the fall. Working along with the United Farmers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) representative in Boston, a group of students, both Chicano and Anglo, decided to press Harvard into buying only UFWOC picked lettuce. The Ad Hoc Committee to Stop Scab Lettuce at Harvard designed a petition asking for only union lettuce, collected 1100 signatures, and presented it to the Harvard Administration. The petition was dismissed because it represented the wishes of only a small group of students. After some long-winded meetings with Administration...
...section of the magazine, but receives continuing coverage in a number of departments. In April, TIME did a cover story on the industry's difficulties. Last week we reported on the Paris Air Show, and this week Business carries an account of a ride in the new Anglo-French Concorde. TIME has also come to be a catalyst for aviation ideas beyond the printed page. Periodically we bring to gether industry leaders, Government officials and others to exchange views and examine new developments...
...first, the Soviets grabbed the headlines with a dazzling array of new aircraft, especially the TU-144 supersonic jetliner. But when the Paris Air Show got into full swing last week, the French crowds were flocking to see a competing SST, the Anglo-French Concorde. If the Western European jet makes its commercial debut in 1974 or 1975, it will be the first supersonic liner in regular service. TIME'S Paris bureau chief, William Rademaekers, went to Le Bourget Airport to look at the Concorde, and was invited to become one of the first journalists to ride...
...show doubted that many Soviet SSTs will be sold in the West, even though a number of airlines are closely studying the TU-144's specifications. Aside from the uncertainty of depending on the Russians for parts and service, there is a belief among aeronautical engineers that the Anglo-French Concorde is a more sophisticated machine...
...even relaxed the long-standing white-Australia policy, which generations of politicians coyly insisted did not exist. Last year, under an informal quota of 10,000 per year, 3,500 non-whites (mostly Chinese from the Pacific islands and Southeast Asia) and 6,000 persons of mixed blood (mainly Anglo-Indians, Anglo-Ceylonese and Anglo-Chinese) were admitted...