Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although there is nothing really mysterious about Bill Edwards' relationship with Harvard, there is much that is interesting and unconventional about it. The farthest back that anyone here can remember Edwards is 1964, when he received his M.A. degree from the English Department. That was the last official affiliation Edwards had with the University. Now he proctors exams. He proctors a lot of exams. But as far as anyone contacted knows, he has no full-time position with or official title of the University...
...English have made a giant step in combating noise pollution. They sent the Sex Pistols...
DIED. Freda Utley, 79, acerbic, English-born author (Odyssey of a Liberal, Last Chance in China), and journalist; of a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A member of the British Communist Party, she moved to the Soviet Union in 1930 but grew disillusioned with Stalin's regime when her Soviet husband was exiled to Siberia, where he died in a concentration camp. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1939, became a foreign correspondent for the Reader's Digest, and during the McCarthy hearings of 1950 testified about Communist influence on U.S. foreign policy in the Far East...
SATELLITES. In 1972 the U.S. and Soviet Union agreed that a "national means of verification" could be used by both sides, without interference, to police arms control pacts. In plain English: spy satellites were legal...
...boss, Yuri Andropov, took command in 1967, and in 1973 became the first KGB head since Stalin's dreaded Lavrenti Beria to join the ruling Politburo. Andropov, 63, is said to admire modern art and to be a witty conversationalist who speaks fluent English-a portrait that contrasts with his harsh actions as Moscow's Ambassador to Hungary during the 1956 uprising. Under Andropov, says one Western analyst, "the thugs are being weeded...