Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state that the moon's mountains have been softened by billions of years of erosion [Aug. 23]. Erosion by what I wonder? Torrential rains and blistering sandstorms no doubt...
Fans of Mission: Impossible or The Great Escape could best appreciate the precision planning and bold execution of the Joel Kaplan caper (TIME, Aug. 30). Consider the facts: an American serving a murder sentence in Mexico was plucked from behind the walls of a heavily guarded prison, transferred to a light plane, then flown across the U.S. border to the safety of an unknown hideout. Amazing, just amazing. Even more amazing, if one can believe Kaplan's Mexican lawyer, is that his brilliantly engineered escape from Santa Marta Acatitla prison last month was all done quite legally...
...chief economist, reckons that the program will generate 500,000 new jobs. But what Connally so emphatically describes as "the capstone" of the Administration program is a large effort to aid business. The key proposal is for an investment tax credit of 10% in the year beginning Aug. 15 and 5% in subsequent years. In theory, the credits will produce a torrent of capital investment, which will trickle through the economy, generating new orders for goods and services and new jobs...
...CHICAGO, by contrast, three hospitals run by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart cut daily room rates by $2. Refunds will be made to patients, retroactive to Aug. 14. Administrator Joseph J. Rossi Jr. explained that the reduction was possible because the freeze on salaries of hospital employees had generated some unexpected money...
Florida Telephone Corp. is hardly the largest of the nation's 1,840 "independent" (non-Bell) telephone companies. But it is certainly the most independent. While almost all the nation's corporations complied with President Nixon's request that they hold dividends down to pre-Aug. 15 levels, the $20 million-a-year central Florida utility refused...