Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most: a "town meeting," in the sweltering Bardstown high school gym, which was jammed with 2,100 people who had waited up to three hours for good seats. Shedding his jacket and rolling up his sleeves, Carter was as folksy as the victorious campaigner of 1976. When one youth found that his microphone would not work, the President graciously called him to the podium to use his. When a rural woman complained about the telephone rates in her neighborhood, Carter promised to call the head of the state public utilities commission, admitting with a smile: "I'm not guaranteeing...
...emblazon his name for posterity. It does not often come true, but it did for Herbert Marcuse. In the tumultuous 1960s his arcane and obscurely written books were suddenly discovered by student radicals in both America and Western Europe, and the white-maned, craggy-faced, cigar-puffing septuagenarian found himself a culture hero of the youth rebellion. A protesting student in Rome spoke for innumerable other rebels when he placed Marcuse in a holy trinity of revolutionaries: "We see Marx as the prophet, Marcuse as his interpreter and Mao as the sword...
Assistant Secretary of State Viron Vaky, who completed a fact-finding trip to Central America last week, found that Romero had retreated into a defiant "bunker mentality" not unlike the one that gripped Somoza during the final days of his dying regime...
...Hong Kong, for instance, where the population resents the aid given Vietnamese, the local office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) found itself so short of funds last week that it decided to cut off the $1.20 daily food allowance provided for 17,000 Vietnamese refugees in the colony who are unemployed but capable of working. Of the 8,200 refugees who have found work in Hong Kong's factories, many are paid $4.20 for an eight-hour day, or about half of what local employees earn...
...Indians so he could be closer to his wife Diane and their three children in Canton, 50 miles south of Cleveland. He became a pilot so that he could jet home just for the night after a game. Flying seemed to give him the inner peace he found elusive in the klieg light jungle of baseball. "You get up there," he said once, "and nobody asks you any questions...