Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your Essay, "New Places to Look for Presidents" [Dec. 15] is filled with your choices of "the best people to be considered for the presidency." Why didn't you point out that many of our best people are women...
...fascinated by Cartoonist Conrad's portrayal of Father Ford bestowing a penitential blessing on a kneeling and presumably shriven New York City [Dec. 22]. I wonder if Conrad knows that he has the President of the United States giving the Boy Scout sign and not the ancient Christian gesture (index and middle fingers only) of God's peace. Intentional or unintentional, the bonus of that extra finger for New York serves to heighten the humor...
Hunger induces women in the Third World [Dec. 22] to produce from eight to ten children with the assumption that only three will live to become breadwinners. The idea that the circle can be broken with family-planning measures is a fantasy of the rich world...
...suggest, Tawfiq Zayad's recent election as mayor of Nazareth [Dec. 22] may encourage Israeli Arabs to try to exert political power on a national scale. However, I do not see this as a catastrophe for Israel. In fact, a successful bid for political power by Israel's Arab citizens may prove that Israel's political system works for all her citizens, and that her democratic ideals are honored...
...thieves broke into Technicolor's vaults and filched three weeks' worth of shooting. Then a strike by the production crew and a case of flu contracted by Star Donald Sutherland caused further costly delays. Claiming that Fellini had run over both his $6 million budget and a Dec. 20 deadline, Producer Alberto Grimaldi last week announced that he was suspending the cast of 170. Fellini called in his attorneys about the matter and offered a one-line review of his producer's charges: "Slanderous, untruthful and offensive...