Word: cards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move simplifies production of the cards--allowing mass manufacture at a cost of about 20 cents a card instead of $1.50--and means that freshmen probably will receive I.D. cards in their registration packets today...
...decision to drop the cards, which was made by the director of the Office of Fiscal Services, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, also signals a renewed effort by that office to test computer-linked I.D. card readers that would serve the checking function
Theosophist Kenneth Buzby predicted that war will become a thing of the past, that cancer will be cured and pollution overcome. But most prophets were decidedly gloomier. Several foresaw an end of the American presidency, perhaps by the year 2025. Tarot Card Reader Johanna Okovic predicted an earthquake in New York City in 1978 and a war between 2011 and 2016. Astrologer Leah O'Leary, Michael's wife, forecast a "naval conflict" in 1979, floods on both the East and West coasts and a "nuclear mishap...
...goulash Communism"-the term coined in the early 1960s to describe Nikita Khrushchev's insistence that Red economies satisfy consumer needs instead of concentrating only on the development of heavy industry. Now the Soviet bloc is following an even more heretical strategy that might be called credit-card Communism-the customers in this case being governments rather than individuals. Totally violating Marxist prejudices, the Soviet Union and its six economic allies in Eastern Europe* are trying to modernize their antiquated economies by borrowing heavily from their supposed class enemies, the capitalists of the West...
...Carol, whose own fortune is based on holdings in Pepperidge Farm, Campbell Soup and Swanson. The Prices opened up their richly furnished two-story penthouse "The Walnuts," in the Country Club Plaza section of Kansas City, to 210 guests, including many of the town's leading citizens. Hallmark Card Owners Joyce Hall and his son Donald were there, as were civic-minded Banker R. Crosby Kemper Jr., for whose father the convention arena is named, and Henry Block, head of H & R Block, Inc., the firm that offers first aid to people faced with income tax forms. So were...