Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Broken window panes in the door to H-entry of Eliot House following a Thursday night party led House officials to cancel the Friday evening happy hour and call a meeting of all H-entry residents...
...boys trudging through a remote cemetery near Scranton, Pa., found the body of a woman who had been stabbed to death. Later that day, a man who identified himself as Roger Ferretti telephoned Scranton police to report that he had just killed a woman-and the call was routinely recorded. The cops located Ferretti, who denied killing the woman or making the call. Two days later police arrested Adam Topa, now 56, a factory worker who knew Ferretti and had been out drinking with the victim the night of the murder. The evidence against Topa was strong but largely circumstantial...
...faces his own pressures. U.S. shoe workers and factory owners are clamoring for a tariff that would reduce imports to their 1974 level. Makers of color TV sets are similarly demanding high tariffs that would keep out Japanese imports. The betting is that Carter will resist; he could hardly call for free trade at the summit right after caving in to protectionist pressure at home...
...Conserving Energy. On April 20, shortly before leaving for the summit, Carter is committed to announcing a "comprehensive" U.S. energy policy that will presumably call for tough conservation measures. He will probably ask his fellow heads of government to follow Washington's lead. One proposal being considered by the White House: to ask the other six for a pledge to cut their 1978 energy consumption by a set figure, perhaps 10%. Carter will run into some flak. The French, in particular, complain that the U.S.'s rising oil imports encourage the OPEC price boosts that hurt countries like...
...mother-that she replace her horn-rims with contact lenses. After Stahl's first network stand-up report, her mother complained from Boston: "Sixty million Americans saw you tonight. One of them was my future son-in-law, but he's never going to call you for a date because you wore glasses!" Actually Stahl, who now makes more than $50,000 a year, is one of the few women correspondents who is married. Her husband: author and former New York magazine Writer Aaron Latham, 33. "I couldn't be married to someone who wants me home...