Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little after 1 o'clock on Dec. 13, 1948, a 22-year-old American file clerk from the U.S. embassy in Moscow named Alexander Dolgun strolled down Gorky Street on his way to lunch. Suddenly a tall, good-looking stranger hailed him like a long-lost friend. Alex's purported kiryukha (old buddy) was a major in the MGB, the Ministry of State Security, who promptly took him to jail. What began as a delayed luncheon lasted seven years and eight months. For the first 18 months the MGB tried unsuccessfully to force their prisoner to confess that...
...until late this year or early next to see if big new tax cuts or spending programs are necessary, but they believe that some steps could be taken now. At minimum, they think the income tax cut should be extended through 1976 rather than being allowed to expire on Dec. 31, as it will under present law; Congress is almost certain to agree. Some members would also have the Federal Reserve bring down interest rates by expanding the nation's money supply more rapidly than the 5% to 7 ½% rate set as a target for the next twelve...
...coming. But now that the English dauphin has been so well anointed with the oil of consecration, one may step back and reflect that after all, his work does not have the immense flawed vitality of David Smith's; that it is an intelligent, distinguished but sometimes only dec orative addition to the short history of constructed sculpture...
South Africa's adventurous surgeon Christiaan Barnard startled the scientific world late last year by announcing that he had not only given a patient a new heart but had left most of the old one, still beating, in place (TIME, Dec. 9). Although the world's first twin-heart patient, an engineer named Ivan Taylor, died early in April, Barnard is still satisfied that his surgical spectacular was a success. The death, he explained last week, was not directly related to the operation. Taylor died not because his body rejected the new heart but as a result...
...typical of many since the beginning of the year, the Dow Jones industrial average spurted 29 points to 819, a high for the year, before backing off to 808 on Friday. Still, that was 230 points above the widely watched index's twelve-year low of 578 last Dec. 6. In little more than four months, the average has retraced more than half of its precipitous drop from the alltime high of 1052 in January...