Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point, some of the arcane details dear to Kremlinologists began to assume significance. It was noted that Brezhnev had not been photographed, televised-or seen by foreigners-since Dec. 29. The Kremlin's New Year's greeting to the Soviet people, which traditionally has been broadcast by a ranking party leader, was read by a radio announcer in 1975. These incidents could be explained by the death of Brezhnev's 87-year-old mother over the New Year holidays. Indeed, the Soviet press agency Tass reported that Brezhnev had attended the funeral last week. Nonetheless, there...
...Economy & Business section [Dec. 9] reference was made to the Oct. 12 appearance of John Denver at the University of Tennessee. You erred on two points. There were 12,075 seats rather than 14,000 mentioned in the article, and every available seat was sold...
Saddles is expected to gross around $25 million and the just released Young Frankenstein (TIME, Dec. 30), says the unblinkingly immodest Brooks, "will nail my reputation." Especially among the young, he adds, noting the enthusiastic reception that the seven-to-twelve set gave Frankenstein at sneak previews. "I'll be the new Disney. We're going to launch a whole new generation of Mel Brooks freaks...
...previous U.S. gold rushes gone anything like the one that began last week, California would have been short of settlers and Poet Robert Service would never have written about the cremation of Sam McGee in the Klondike. Legally free as of Dec. 31 to buy bullion for the first time in 41 years, Americans greeted the opportunity with a veteran prospector's wariness of fool's gold. The caution seemed justified. By week's end, after three full days of trading in the yellow metal, gold's price stood at $174 per ounce on the bellwether...
...purchasers, the risks were outweighed by the intangible rewards of being among the first Americans to get in on the gold action. A Michigan girl, twelve-year-old Carlenne Brown of Bloomfield township, claims to be the first buyer of the yellow metal. At one second past midnight on Dec. 31, she signed an invoice for a quarter-ounce wafer, bought for $52.79 through a publicity-minded Southfield, Mich., coin dealer; he obtained the wafer from a fellow dealer in nearby Windsor, Canada, and had it delivered to his shop by car and helicopter...