Word: horned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Harold Lloyd, 77, comedian whose screen image of horn-rimmed incompetence made him Hollywood's highest-paid star in the 1920s; of cancer; in Hollywood. He usually played a feckless Mr. Average who triumphed over misfortune. "My character represented the white-collar middle class that felt frustrated but was always fighting to overcome its shortcomings," he once explained. Lloyd usually did his own stunt work, as in Safety Last (1923), in which he dangled from a clock high above the street; he was protected only by a wooden platform two floors below...
Cigarette foes hope that recent increases in sales will prove to be only the temporary effect of a last-minute TV ad blitz and the flurry of new brands introduced by the industry while commercials were still legal. Dr. Daniel Horn, head of the Government's National Clearinghouse for Smoking and Health, predicts that the broadcast ban will reduce smoking by two major groups: teen-agers and the five to ten million adults who, he reckons, are really trying to quit smoking. About one-third of the would-be quitters interviewed by Horn's group reported that they...
...week salary as a factory worker. In desperation, he took a job as a janitor in the aptly named Bright Hope Baptist Church of North Philadelphia. The pastor, it happened, had some wealthy acquaintances. Through his intercession, a syndicate called Cloverlay Inc., headed by F. Bruce Baldwin, a Horn & Hardart executive, was set up to finance Joe's professional boxing career...
Across the midsection of Africa, at roughly the point where the savanna meets the tropical forest, a kind of human fault line separates the Arab world from Black Africa, This zone of instability, from Chad to the Horn, is a battleground where Arab guerrillas are pitted against black governments, and African rebels against Arab regimes. In a sense, two of the stubbornest rebellions-the civil war in the southern Sudan and the Eritrean uprising in northern Ethiopia-are extensions of the Arab-Israeli conflict to the north. The situation in the Sudan has been further complicated by the Soviet Union...
Nonetheless, Numeiry's revolutionary regime is becoming more and more dependent on the military support of the Soviet Union, which has some 500 advisers in the Sudan. Farther down the Horn of Africa in Somalia (see map), there are an estimated 325 Russian advisers. Last year the Russians began to construct a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, an installation that will be useful, once the Suez Canal is reopened, in the further expansion of Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Now the Russians are installing SA-2 antiaircraft missiles to defend the base...