Word: charting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dictatorship need an apparatus that seems to confirm their legitimacy, a formal link to the party rank and file, and a sounding board, however limited, for their pronouncements. For the leadership, a Party Congress is an occasion to defend its record, assess the country's condition and chart the course ahead...
...with milk, and who the hell are they looking for? I, you see, knew all the Presidents once, but Margie knew all the Presidents and could run the track faster than anyone else. And you, I understand, knew the atomic numbers of every single element on that little chart. Did the 75 in typing ruin your average? No matter. They were looking for us. And they never-how many times did they tell us?-they never make a mistake...
...cover story is accompanied by a chart, "An Informal Genealogy" of rock, which was drawn by Artist John Huehnergarth, in collaboration with Senior Editor Timothy Foote and Critic Bender. With the help of Maps Researcher Nina Lihn, they sorted out the hundreds of pop, country and blues groups of the last four decades in order to show the major lines of development and influence. "It's finally all come together-pop, folk, country, rock and even some jazz," says Bender. "And musically, James Taylor is right where the new rock...
Foolish Elders. To prepare Britons for the changeover, involving three new silver coins and three bronze ones (see chart), the Decimal Currency Board launched a $3,000,000 educational campaign. Posters went on display in 950 cities and towns. Fifteen million copies of a decimal currency guide were sent to households throughout the country, including booklets in Welsh and Braille. Television spots urged: "Think decimal!" The BBC put a 13-year-old schoolboy named Sebastian on its breakfast program to explain to his foolish elders how simple decimalization is. Listeners loathed...
...Communist or Marxist regimes in all of Eastern Europe, in Asia, in Africa, and even in the Caribbean and South America-but not one where Lenin dreamed that his ideology would triumph first. Only in three Western European countries, in fact, does Communism constitute a major force (see chart). The big three...