Word: helping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CONSIDER the $2.4 million new recreational athletic center buried like a treasure in the foot of Observatory Hill. Without any help from Harvard, Radcliffe raised $972.000 to complete construction of the recreational athletic facility that houses the only doubles squash courts, racquetball and standard-sized handball courts in the University. But now Radcliffe refuses to share the wealth of facilities...
...mind-boggling $314 billion take on Carter's decontrol decision. That's more than double the annual appropriation for defense spending.) Instead, the oil companies may well choose to buy up other energy producers, giving them even greater control of our energy future, while doing almost nothing to help increase energy production. Eleven oil companies already own 25 per cent of the coal industry, according to a September 1979 issue of Business Week, and are beginning to buy up the best small solar firms, jeopardizing the future of competition in the energy field...
...announcement yesterday that the U.S. will stop direct purchasing of Iranian oil drew support from 68.3 per cent of the respondents. More than 45 per cent favored negotiations through the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) although many added the U.S. should not have accepted the PLO's offer of help until all other channels had been tried...
...ominous noise in the kitchen turns out to be the ice maker; and yes, the ghastly face visible when a door is jerked open belongs to a cop, not the murderer. The big scream scene, in which Kane turns for help to a blanket-covered figure of her sleeping husband, is some of the funniest footage since the Marx brothers broke up, and maybe it should have been planned that...
...been developing for quite a while. It had started well before it was dramatized in the memorable gymnastics of Sammy Davis Jr. flinging his little arms about Richard Nixon. Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, enlisted Playwright Robert Sherwood as a ghost, and subsequent Presidents increasingly turned to theatrical artisans for help, especially after TV got big. By the 1970s the political scene seemed so stagey that Anthropologist Edmund Carpenter was moved to say that "the White House is now essentially a TV performance." He exaggerated, but not by much...