Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program has received funding from outside corporations, including the Exxon Education Foundation and General Motors, Donna G. Martyn, assistant dean placement at the GSAS and creator of the program, said yesterday. The program's tuition will be $600, she added...
...reminded. Of all the promise and possibility of rock. Of its dangers, and the reasons for facing them down. Of its limits, and the necessity of testing them, trampling them and resetting them still higher. Whether there's a question of age, relevance and survival, or a more general concern about definition and direction, all doubts were settled, and all bets were off, when The Who played five sold-out dates at Madison Square Garden...
...financial blood bank for the company might be the $300 million strike fund built up by the United Auto Workers. After the contract settlement with General Motors two weeks ago, that fund will not be needed to pay picketing workers, and Chrysler may try to borrow from it This week Chrysler will open its own contract negotiations with the U.A.W., and ways in which the union might help the automaker will be discussed. U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser rules out using the $300 million kitty, but may accept partly deferred wage or benefit payments in return for a voice in management...
Following the angriest Mexican-American confrontation since General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing chased Pancho Villa south of the border in 1916, the two countries last week initialed an agreement for the sale of 300 million cu. ft. of gas daily at an initial price of $3.63 per 1,000 cu. ft. The gas involved amounts to less than 1% of total U.S. consumption and is far under the 2.2 billion-cu.-ft.-per-day deal envisaged in July 1977 when Pemex, the Mexican state oil company, signed a letter of intent with six American pipeline companies...
DIED. Ludvik Svoboda, 83, President of Czechoslovakia during the 1968 Soviet invasion; in Prague. Having fled to Poland when the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, Svoboda returned in 1945 as a triumphant general, alongside Red Army forces. He became Czechoslovakia's first postwar Defense Minister and secretly abetted the Communist takeover three years later. Discredited and imprisoned during the Stalinist purges of the early '50s, he was politically resurrected by Nikita Khrushchev. In 1968, the retired general was selected as a compromise presidential candidate by liberal Czech Leader Alexander Dubcek, who hoped the choice would allay Moscow...