Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter, his top economic advisers and Democratic congressional leaders emerged from a four-hour meeting in Plains last week, their smiles and banter clearly gave them away. They had not only reached agreement on what to do about the economy, they were quite pleased with what they had wrought. "I've been in Congress for 24 years," House Speaker "Tip" O'Neill exulted, "and I don't ever recall anything of this nature-the leadership coming and having a dialogue with the President in regard to his pending messages and plans. I am tremendously pleased with...
Puerto Rico's new Governor-elect, Carlos Romero Barceló, was startled to be summoned from a luncheon table in San Juan on the last day of the year by an urgent telephone call from the White House. The message: within an hour, President Gerald Ford would propose that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico become the U.S.'s 51st state...
...with self-indulgence to spare, he introduces into F for Fake, for no apparent reason, a young Hungarian protegee named Oja Kodar. Not only a svelte, swarthy beauty, he assures us, but a major new talent: brilliant, sophisticated, articulate. Welles then proceeds to regale himself with two quarter-hour sequences of Kodar parading her proportions around Parisien, and then Hungarian streets...
...year is watching people take exams. The best ones to watch are those in which the participants face real strain, such as exams in pre-med courses. This year, the season will be starting early, with Chemistry 170, "Bio-organic Chemistry' kicking off on January 18, with mammoth six-hour extravaganza...
During her half-hour electronic checkup, TIME Correspondent Anne Constable, 31, answered some 70 multiple-choice questions about everything from her family medical history and cultural background to her state of mind ("Have you ever seriously thought of ending your life?"). She was then advised that her statistical risk of dying within the next decade was 1,301 in 100,000. These precise odds, based on actuarial tables and clinical data stored away in the computer's memory banks, were just a fraction above those for the average white woman in the 30-to-34-year age group...