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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Post's life-style was extravagant, so too was her philanthropy. During World War I she built a 2,000-bed field hospital. During the Depression she put her jewels into a vault, canceled their insurance, and used the money saved for a New York kitchen that fed 1,000 people daily. Her endowments to C.W. Post College of Long Island University and her own alma mater, Mount Vernon Junior College have long been the envy of less wealthy institutions. She gave well over $1,000,000 to the Washington National Symphony Orchestra...
...with a submachine gun presented to him by Cuba's Fidel Castro. But rumors spread that Allende had been shot 13 times−the widow later saw his coffin but never his body−and that he and four aides had been killed in cold blood. The rumors fed the rapidly growing legend of Allende the Marxist martyr...
...proportion to their numbers. Police believe that no more than six persons, split between two small Provisional I.R.A. cells, are involved. The war of nerves, as Scotland Yard sees it, is a desperate, last-ditch attempt by the badly scattered Proves to make the British so fed up that they will withdraw their troops from Ulster. But the bombings could also backfire and stiffen British resolve to stick it out. Late last week, the I.R.A., which had previously refused to confirm or deny responsibility for the bombings, virtually admitted its guilt. In a statement addressed to Prime Minister Edward Heath...
...estimates, the computer system will have amassed data on 11.5 million South Vietnamese citizens by 1975. Initiated two years ago, the electronic setup is being developed by Computer Sciences Corp. of Los Angeles. Political and personal data on two-thirds of all adult South Vietnamese have already been fed into the system. According to congressional auditors, police training and computers are being financed through a variety of innocent-sounding programs...
...deals may risk reviving the image of el Pulpo; the beef will not be fed to hungry Latins, but will be shipped...