Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to see this Kabu-what do you call it? The Japanese theater...
...asking him for two Christmas gifts. One is a tax cut to stimulate profits, investment and employment. The other is the appointment of an inflation-fighting conservative to head the Federal Reserve Board, preferably the patriarchal incumbent, Arthur F. Burns. Last week the President went halfway; he promised to call for a tax cut in 1978. But the future of the Fed chairmanship remained a tantalizing question...
...record he would like to be known as 1069 (pronounced One Zero Six Nine), but friends may call him "One Zero" for short. He wants society to recognize his right to use the four digits as his legal name rather than the one his parents gave him-Michael Herbert Dengler. After four years of unsuccessful attempts to get North Dakota and Minnesota authorities, the telephone company and a series of employers to identify him by his numerical name, Dengler, now 32 and a sometime short-order cook, last week sued for the name change in Minnesota's Hennepin County...
...Cairo is still upbeat. Last week Sadat told a visiting delegation of 50 Bedouin chiefs from Sinai that during next year's Feast of Sacrifice, "we shall pray together in the heart of Sinai-there will be no more defeats, no going back. I shall pursue this call for peace.' (During this year's feast, Sadat prayed at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque.) Sadat's office is inundated with pledges of support from around the country. In the streets of Cairo, in restaurants and hotels, Egyptians speak openly and warmly about his quest for peace...
...bottom line would call for Harvard to give up almost $1 million in federal aid in exchange for retaining control of its admissions...