Word: armageddon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand? We are going toward a postnuclear, post-Armageddon Golden...
...dollar, revolt in the inner city, a fuel shortage or a famine. These folks aim to be ready. They are buying country retreats, stocking them with food and ammunition-and elevating the study of survival to a high art. The weekend festival is a kind of Woodstock for the Armageddon set. In "Emergency Tools and Weapons," Charles Kehrberg of Hillsdale, Mich., explains how to fumigate stored food grains (add dry ice). In "Food: Preparation, Production, Preservation," Ruth Anthony of Kansas City, Kans., talks about subsisting on wild plants (eat only the tender inner leaves of dandelions, the leafy tips...
There is little chance of a Chrysler-type financial Armageddon. Ford remains a globe-girdling, diversified corporation with 1978 earnings of $1.6 billion on revenues of $43 billion. Its glass, steel and aerospace operations boast record earnings, as does its international automotive business, which ranks second only to Volkswagen outside North America. And Caldwell is a cool, analytical manager who is credited with turning around international operations, which produce two-thirds of Ford's profits. Can he rebuild domestic sales? Cautions Caldwell: "This is a long-lead business. A lot will come two to three years from...
...Park last week, conjuring up visions of the antiwar days. Bella Abzug was there. So were Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Environmentalist Barry Commoner. And so, in another flashback to the '60s, were Actress Jane Fonda and her husband Activist Tom Hayden, this time talking of a nuclear Armageddon. Said Fonda to the cheering crowd: "We have to think of ourselves as Paul Reveres and Pauline Reveres, going through our country town by town, city by city, warning people about the dangers...
...that he savors a political fight. "It's a challenge," says a top White House staffer. "We fought a tougher fight in 1976 and won, and we're going to win this one too." Carter promises to battle to the last delegate. "It may be an Armageddon," warns an aide. "But he's never going to pull...