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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hartley blamed the increase on inflation. "We're trying to keep our increases just behind the rise in the cost of living, which last year was 9 per cent," he said...
Increased financial aid will probably counteract part of the cost increase, he said. "About 40 per cent of our students receive some form of aid, and some of these students may need extra help to cope with the extra charges," Hartley said...
Given the cost of pioneering the machines-Magnavox has already invested about $80 million, while RCA has spent more than $50 million-both companies have moved with caution. Indeed, RCA announced that it would go ahead with its system only after Magnavox began test-marketing in December. Magnavox, for its part, took the plunge because it had an agreement with MCA that it would launch videodiscs no later than 1978. Both players will be nationally available in 1980 when, despite Magnavox's test launches this year, RCA's greater number of dealers and lower price tag may give...
...high bronze statue of the physicist that will be unveiled in April by the National Academy of Sciences on Washington's Constitution Avenue. Critics have attacked Sculptor Robert Berks for his "bubble gum" style, the astrological connotation of the star-studded base and the statue's cost (at least $1.6 million). Others insist that no statue could really be appropriate; Einstein, after all, was so opposed to posthumous veneration that he willed his ashes to be scattered at an undisclosed place. Constantly called upon to pose for photographers, painters and sculptors (including Berks), he once gave his occupation as "artist...
...money was intelligently spent. Interiors have accurate period furnishings and products. Such minor locations as a 1930s gas station, where young Alex is barred from the men's room, are as full of vivid details as the Dust Bowl sets in Bonnie and Clyde. At a cost of $1.8 million, ABC built the town of Henning, Tenn., where Haley's family settled at the end of Roots 1, and updated its streets and buildings for each decade. Though the African sequences and World War 1 battles were shot in California 'at the Los Angeles Arboretum...