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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series of dramatic but carefully limited moves, the President fought back with economic reprisals. He ordered a stop to all purchases of Iranian oil, 700,000 bbl. per day, or 4% of U.S. consumption; he froze all Iranian government banking assets in the U.S. The Administration has not officially interrupted the flow of the nearly $500 million worth of food the U.S. ships to Iran annually. But the International Longshoremen's Association instructed all its members not to load any vessels bound for Iran, and the giant American Farm Bureau Federation offered to support a total boycott on food exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

Across from the Kennedy School on Boylston St., Kirkland House students threw snowballs at cars. Crew boats dotted the windswept Charles. And at the Business School field yesterday, time froze before...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Booters Knot Amherst, 1-1 | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

With less than a minute remaining in regulation and the Harvard men's soccer team desperately pressuring the Amherst net for a tiebreaking goal, the Lord Jeffs' coach scampered frantically onto the field, shouting "Hey Ref, ref, the clock froze...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Booters Knot Amherst, 1-1 | 10/11/1979 | See Source »

...Summer School does not have a deadline for applications, but Wayne Ishikawa, dean of the Summer School, froze registration about a week ago, Jacobs said. There are about 3500 students in the entire Summer School program, he added...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Late Applications Cause Snarl in Housing Office | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

King Kong, Carefully paced, often gripping, this thriller-fantasy set the style for most of the giant monster movies to come. Special-effects designer Willis O'Brien's giant ape was the source of awe and terror--even the camera froze on him while he did his stuff. To movie-goers of 1933, O'Brien's small moth-eaten model--which had to be moved ever-so slightly and filmed for a fraction of a second at a time--was a revelation, the ultimate fantasy. If Kong appears jerky and slightly ridiculous to us, it must have seemed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gorilla From Another Time | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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