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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were only a few special assistants to protect former president Nathan M. Pusey '28 from the bureaucratic flood, Bok created four vice-presidents, a general counsel, and an expanded team of special assistants to handle his administrative chores. At the time of his inaugural, Bok said he wanted to fill all those new positions rapidly and then pay attention to educational concerns...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: The Four Horsemen And the Apocalypse | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...gone over in ink by an artist at the syndicate's Kansas City headquarters. Trudeau can be spotted most afternoons jogging around the park behind his house. "I'm a religious jogger," says Trudeau, who spends three hours a day at it. Doonesbury's characters could fill a catalogue with their bizarre tastes, but their progenitor has few weaknesses. Among them are junk food and Dr. Pepper. He is so casual about feeding habits that he keeps a can of frozen orange juice concentrate in his refrigerator and spoons out enough for one glass at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOONESBURY: Drawing and Quartering for Fun and Profit | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...cartoons are representative, but they show Bugs only at his intermittent best. Many of his finest efforts are missing because rights were not available. Vintage home movies of the animation unit are fun, but Filmmaker Jackson relies too much on the reminiscences of Cartoon Director Bob Clampett to fill in the facts. Clampett pays scant attention to his contemporaries-Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones-and endeavors to portray himself as Looney Tunes' brightest light. The two best cartoons in the show, however, are the work of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rabbit Stew | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...began in the late 1950s and early '60s, with the rise of a generation of bankers unscarred by memories of the Depression's banking disasters. They were determined to fill profitably the ravenous demand for credit aroused by America's postwar affluence. Banks opened new branches wherever the hodgepodge of federal and state regulations permitted; between 1965 and 1975 the number of U.S. commercial banking locations exploded from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Digging Out of the Bad Debt Mess | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...should be really good next year," Bill says. "I'd say we have to fill in the offensive line and the defensive backfield. But we have a lot of talent, a lot of good guys coming up. I think it's realistic to say we could go undefeated...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Bill Emper: Still His Hometown's Hero | 1/16/1976 | See Source »

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