Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elizabeth Taylor will lead jugglers, antique cars, fire engines, bagpipe players and a horde of curious stargazers around Harvard Square tomorrow afternoon before the Hasty Pudding theatrical club bestows upon her their 37th annual Woman of the Year award...
...tension ran high on Dec. 23, the date for the award. At both plants it was the last day of work before a ten-day vacation, and the scenes began identically: as noon approached, workers began preparing for annual lunch-in parties (no liquor, but lots of special things to eat). A few minutes after 12, the grapevines came alive with news of Sikorsky's victory...
...about new hiring: the firm will add only 400 to 500 people this year and a maximum of 2,000 by 1980. That means disappointment for most of the 6,000 skilled and semiskilled job seekers who have come to pound on the plant door since Sikorsky won the award...
...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...
...favored Western Conference squad staged a come-from-behind, 125-124 victory over the East in the NBA All-Star game in Milwaukee yesterday afternoon. Philadelphia's Julius Erving, playing forward for the East, received the game's Most Valuable Player award...