Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past years the office was hardly worth fighting over, since Paris mayors took orders directly from the central government. But thanks to a reform measure proposed by Giscard and enacted a year ago, the next mayor and city council-to be chosen in nationwide municipal elections March 13-will gain a major voice in the running of an international capital of 2.3 million inhabitants and with a budget of $1.4 billion. As a result, the new mayor will become a powerful French political figure...
...analysis is condescending in his implicit assumption that business school graduates gain nothing from their training that liberal arts graduates do not already have...
...fewer than 215 occasions since the end of World War II, the U.S. has seriously threatened to unleash some of its military might-from a single warship to a nuclear strike force-in order to gain diplomatic leverage. In the same period, the Soviet Union has rattled its sabers 115 times. This means that the two superpowers have gone to the brink of war-or made it look as if they were preparing to go to the brink-an average of nearly once a month since...
Chrysler, which had been ailing for several years, made a spectacular comeback. Its total car sales last year leaped 31% over 1975, exceeding even GM's 28% gain. The company's revival rested largely on three handsomely styled, scaled-down autos: the Volaré, which sold 311,000 and the Aspen (232,000), which are both compacts, and the intermediate-size Cordoba (175,500), which packs a lot of luxury into a fairly small package...
Died. Roland Hayes, 89, internationally acclaimed tenor who helped open the concert stage to blacks; in Boston. The son of Georgia slaves, Hayes studied singing in the U.S., but had to travel to Europe to gain recognition as a performer. After entertaining the royal family at Buckingham Palace, in 1923 Hayes returned triumphantly to America, where he sang with symphony orchestras and in recitals for more than 50 years...