Word: dec
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...Yarmouth-Thor collision-there were no casualties-was the latest incident in the increasingly nasty "cod war" between Great Britain and Iceland (TIME, Dec. 29). What started out as a semicomical high seas skirmish over Iceland's unilateral claim last October to a 200-mile territorial fishing limit, has become a tense crisis for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Two weeks ago, Iceland broke diplomatic relations with Great Britain...
Whole Man. But categorizing is not that easy. We know Turner's world better than Constable's, or think we do, especially after the splendid Turner retrospective at London's Royal Academy (TIME, Dec. 23, 1974). Now, the same service has been done for Constable, with an exhibition of 335 of his paintings, drawings and watercolors, organized for the Tate Gallery in London by three art historians, Leslie Parris, Ian Fleming-Williams and Conal Shields. It celebrates Constable's 200th birthday and is the largest showing of his work ever. For the first time...
Died. Hilmar Robert Baukhage, 87, newsman and radio commentator who announced the start of World War II in a historic on-the-scene broadcast from Berlin in 1939, then on Dec. 7, 1941, aired the first live newscast from the White House with a marathon eight-hour report on the Pearl Harbor attack; in Washington, D.C. With "Baukhage talking" as his sign-on, the broadcaster was an NBC and ABC mainstay for two decades...
...general mood was one of cautious optimism for the rest of 1976-but deep worry, at least among the liberals, about 1977. So far, the economists agree, the recovery is proceeding right in line with their forecasts (TIME, Dec. 22), which call for a rise of about 6% in real gross national product this year and a decline in unemployment to somewhere between 7% and 7.5% by year's end. Last week the Department of Labor reported that the jobless rate dropped from 8.3% in December to 7.8% in January. That was the steepest monthly decline in more than...
...trio's defection seemed a major victory for the antinuke forces in the great nuclear debate (TIME, Dec. 8). Still, while no one doubted that the men were sincere, their timing left many questions unanswered...