Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only three of TIME'S young leaders ran for office and lost: Democrat Dick Clark, who sought re-election to the Senate from Iowa; Democrat Andrew Miller, in the Senate race in Virginia; and Democrat Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, in the race for California attorney general. The fact that only three were defeated may be a sign that leadership is regaining a stability that has seemed to be missing in the years since Richard Nixon's resignation...
...AAAS may begin publishing a new general interest science magazine aimed at the general public, Mosteller said. AAAS, the world's largest science organization, already publishes Science Magazine, a more technical journal...
...bishops were for it. The laity endorsed it too. But the rank-and-file clergy of the Church of England vehemently opposed the idea. So, as English Anglicans held their autumn General Synod in the white-domed Church House behind Westminster Abbey last week, a proposal to ordain women to the priesthood was defeated...
...drop in starts that the NAHB foresees would be the mildest of the many housing declines that have repeatedly led the economy into recession since World War II. But its impact might be magnified by a reduction in credit-financed buying of other goods, notably cars. Last week General Motors cut its year-end dividend to $2.50 a share, from $3.25 a year ago. GM officials formally clung to their prediction that car sales will total a near record 11.5 million next year, but added that high capital outlays make it wise for the company to conserve cash...
...short supply in the advertising business, but the news that came out of the world's largest ad firm last week really was a stunner. Announcing the biggest merger in Madison Avenue history, the Interpublic Group of Companies, the Manhattan-based agency holding company that is the industry's General Motors (1978 billings: $1.9 billion), announced that it was acquiring SSC & B, the U.S.'s eighth largest agency (billings: $750 million), for an undisclosed price. The acquisition of SSC & B (formerly Sullivan, Stauffer, Colwell & Bayles) would boost Interpublic's combined billings to more than $2.6 billion, making it almost twice...