Word: feb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Feb. 25, 1975: John P. Egan, consular agent in Cordoba, Argentina, kidnaped and killed by guerrillas...
...windup of the most costly, complicated and exhausting round of presidential primaries the U.S. had ever put on. Between 6 a.m. last Feb. 24 in New Hampshire and 8 p.m. last Tuesday in California, some 25 million Americans had voted in 31 primaries-the most ever. By direct vote they chose about 75%-also the most ever-of all the Democratic and Republican delegates who will sit in the nominating conventions this summer. The marathon had cost the candidates and the taxpayers at least $65 million. The process had left many a numb politician and citizen wondering if there...
...sector of the Indian economy, have struck the Soviets as downright ominous -as has the dramatic political emergence of Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay, 30, who has shown little sympathy for Marxist é thinking and is identified with the more moderate wing of the ruling Congress Party (TIME, Feb...
This book attempts the impossible -but then again, that is the author's trademark. It was Microbiologist Commoner who most convincingly alerted Americans to the environmental crisis (TIME cover, Feb. 2, 1970). It was also Commoner who first suggested-in his 1971 bestseller The Closing Circle-that U.S. industry be restructured to conform to ecology's unbending laws. Specifically, he recommended that polluting products (detergents, for example, or synthetic textiles) be replaced by good old natural ones (soap, or cotton and wool). Just how to accomplish such a major switch in industrial direction Commoner...
...1970s, interest rates on Sea Pines' loans shot as high as 16%, and the company found itself seriously overextended. During its last two fiscal years, Sea Pines Co. has suffered losses conservatively estimated at $35 million (figures are not yet complete for the twelve months ended Feb. 29). Once a master builder, Fraser has been furiously pruning his company in hopes of avoiding bankruptcy. Even so, he admits that there is "a 25% chance" that Sea Pines will have to seek a court-ordered reorganization by year...