Word: calm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Complicated Chess. Poland is almost completely calm now. Perhaps the chief reason for the quick restoration of quiet is the prudent and impressive manner in which Gomulka's successor, Edward Gierek, 58, has taken control. Gierek's first move was to grant a number of immediate concessions to the workers, including a price freeze and an 18% raise in the minimum wage (to a still miserable $33 a month). Gierek has now begun a more complex program and, to reassure his neighbors about his plans, he has visited Moscow, East Berlin and Prague and sent his top aides...
...latest incident occurred during a period of relative calm. The Tupamaros had threatened a "hot summer" for prosperous vacationers at Uruguay's Punta del Este, and even sent letters to hundreds of Argentine tourists who own or rent houses in the beach resort, warning them to stay away this year. But the wave of terrorism failed to materialize, the government cut rates on everything from ferry fares across the River Plate to hotel prices, and the flow of tourists began to swell after a slow start. Even so, authorities estimate that only 200,000 tourists will visit this summer...
...Americans rang in the New Year last week, it was an oddly kaleidoscopic moment. Bostonians had slogged through the snowiest December since 1947, and the traffic-snarling snowfalls gave the angular shapes of the town houses on Commonwealth Avenue a specially softened calm. Houston's golf courses were flecked with executives basking in record warm temperatures. Nippy winds scoured clean the usually smoggy Los Angeles basin, offering Southern Californians breathtaking panoramas that they rarely see. The vagaries of the weather matched the novelty of the national mood, as Americans took stock of 1970 and looked to the year ahead...
...Dead were reaching the limits of their power-several hours of nearly non-stop music at the end of a long tour can do that. They paused briefly after one piece, and started in quickly on "Uncle John's Band," a calm, beautifully harmonized song from Workingman's Dead. It was the best saved for last. and it meant the end of the concert was close at hand. The crowd appreciated the song noisily; when it was over, the audience clapped wildly, shouting for more, stomping, clapping in unison, but the Dead were tired, and there...
...students themselves. The largest and most volatile is Isla Vista, abutting the University of California at Santa Barbara. Last spring, "I.V." erupted in three major riots that produced a burned-out Bank of America branch, one death and nearly 1,000 arrests. Most campuses have been relatively calm lately, but two weeks ago a bomb damaged the roof of the rebuilt bank building. After a recent visit to Isla Vista, TIME'S Education Correspondent Gregory H. Wierzynski sent this report...