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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's invitation, extended at the Institutes's prompting by Donald Fanger, chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, probably had a "positive effect" on the Soviet decision to allow Karavansky to emigrate, officials at Harvard and elsewhere said yesterday...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Soviet Union Allows Dissident to Leave | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...down, but status-hungry consumers are still gobbling up items like Godiva, chocolates at $12 per lb. L'Oréal hair-care products push the message to shoppers: "L'Oréal is more expensive, and I'm worth it." Still, says Lord & Taylor Chairman Joseph E. Brooks, "I do not think there will be promiscuous luxury buying of gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Buyers Swing to Quality | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

Commission Chairman Michael Pertschuk, who was appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1977, has become the lightning rod of criticism against the FTC. An ebullient, Yale-trained lawyer with a crusader's rapid-fire zeal, Pertschuk has further raised the ire of both congressional leaders and business. Senator Ford accuses him of turning the agency from law enforcement to social planning. Last year a federal judge banned Pertschuk from all involvement in the children's television case, concluding that he had become too biased against the cereal companies. Other critics charged that Pertschuk was an intemperate, excessive regulator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. William Welsh Graham, 31, adjunct professor of law at U.C.L.A. and son of Washington Post Co. Chairman Katharine Graham; and Caroline Gushing, fortyish gossip columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and onetime companion of David Frost; in Beverly Hills, Calif.; he for the first time, she for the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 3, 1979 | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...lakes are now the environmentalists' major concern The levels of such chemicals as mirex (an insecticide), PCBs and mercury are still too high to allow the resumption of commercial fishing, and Canada publishes a guide that warns sports fishermen which fish are unsafe to eat. Says Leila Botts, chairman of the Great Lakes Basin Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Comeback for the Great Lakes | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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