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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Britain's Ambassador to The Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, 58, had just stepped into his silver-gray Rolls-Royce for the four-minute ride from his residence to the British embassy in The Hague. As Sykes' Dutch valet, Karel Straub, 19, closed the car door, two men suddenly emerged from the back of the courtyard. One fired a revolver through the rear side window of the limousine, hitting Sykes four times; the other gunman shot Straub twice at close range. Sykes and Straub died later in the hospital...
...world markets, the President's Council of Economic Advisers projected in 1975, the U.S. would have to spend 12% of its national wealth on capital investment every year through 1979. Private economists have put the necessary figure as high as 16%. The nation has not even come close. Instead, it has spent in the range of 9.5% to 10%. By most expert estimates, the accumulated need for capital projects-factories, machines, transport systems, energy development-exceeds $200 billion...
...workman using a candle to test for air leaks accidentally started an electrical fire in the Browns Ferry nuclear plant at Athens, Ala. The fire short-circuited cables controlling the primary cooling system, causing loss of some of the nuclear-core cooling water. But nothing even close to a meltdown ensued. Although one of the back-up cooling systems was also disabled, technicians used other emergency circuits to cool the reactor down long before the situation approached the critical stage...
...five years ago. Since last fall the average month-to-month sales rise at McDonald's stores, which used to be 9%, has slipped to 5%. Reflecting these developments, McDonald's stock has declined from the 1978 high of $60 a share to last week's close of $41.25. McDonald's plans to continue to direct its $200 million-a-year advertising campaign toward kids, but it will also begin pushing more vigorously for the adult trade. Its breakfast business is growing, and the company is experimenting at selected sites with a dinner menu that includes...
...this comes as news, it also says something about Jimmy Carter. At the close of a little-remarked-upon television interview last November, he told Public Broadcasting's Bill Moyers that his two most "unpleasant surprises" in office had been the inertia of Congress and the irresponsibility of the press...