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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became even more hopeful when we got to China and the guide in charge of our tour in Canton told us he was reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. We started asking him to arrange a meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-Lai. They were the only two Chinese leaders we knew by name. We wanted to brag to our friends back home and we figured those two could tell us more about the nation's communist system than anybody else...
Energy Savings. Indeed, school and police authorities blamed the darkness, in part, for a number of motor-vehicle accidents involving children, including a 16-year-old boy in suburban Chicago, run over en route to school. Californians were chilled by the brutal rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cupertino, who was attacked as she crossed a vacant lot on her way to school. Most schools found it impossible to adjust their hours because of union contract rules, the after-school commitments of school bus drivers and inconvenience to working parents. Thus, many school authorities recommended that children wear...
...people on the streets each morning are the ragpickers - and Dentsu men hurrying to work." In seeking new business, the firm's account executives are the most aggressive in Japan; they often refer to calls on prospective clients as attacks. Each summer a group of Dentsu workers climbs en masse to the top of Mount Fuji. No sooner do the panting executives reach the summit than they crowd into the mountaintop post office to send greeting cards to clients...
...surface, the generals simply exchanged jobs in a face-saving way. But China watchers speculated that the military reshuffle was part of a broader campaign-an attempt by Chairman Mao and Premier Chou En-lai to increase the authority of the party's Central Committee at the expense of military men, who still suffer from the ancient Chinese tendency to set up warlord fiefdoms in the provinces...
...then the roof caved in for the Crimson cagers as a group of talented Tiger sophomores blitzed the visiting Harvard team en route to an 11 point half-time lead and a 63-49 victory...