Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also receiving honorary degrees during the hour-long morning ceremony on Yale's Old Campus were: Garretson B. "Gary" Trudeau, creator of the comic strip "Doonesbury" and a recent Yale College graduate; Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist who received a similar award from Harvard two years ago; William T. Coleman Jr., U.S. Secretary of Transporation; and Mary D. Leakey, the archeologist...
...Venice, an Italian resort area and scene of bitter World War I battles. There 20 villages were badly battered by a light shock, followed by a major quake that lasted 55 seconds and measured a severe 6.9 on the Richter Scale; eleven more lesser tremors followed over a three-hour period. More than 700 people were killed under falling rubble before the shocks subsided...
...South America and hoped, by the way. to secure the release of "quite a few" of the political prisoners still languishing in the jails of Chile's right-wing military regime. He succeeded. By the time Simon's Air Force jet landed in Santiago for his ten-hour visit there, the Chileans had quietly agreed to free some 300 detainees, among them two former ministers in the ill-fated Marxist government of Salvador Allende Gossens. In a brief airport talk, Simon pointedly noted that U.S. aid to the regime "will be handicapped if there is not a clearer...
...Miller and Vice President Mike Trbovich. "This union is on the verge of financial disaster!" shouted Trbovich. "Our money and our future are being squandered by Arnold Miller's mismanagement!" Jumping to the mike, Miller snapped back: "That's a damn lie and you know it!" An hour later, Miller suspended Trbovich from the vice presidency, ostensibly for failing to launch an investigation of union organizing programs in the West...
Many in television are ex-newspapermen and, being aware that an entire half-hour newscast would not fill even one newspaper page, are apologetic for the superficiality and skimpiness of what they do. They hope to see network news shows extended to a full hour. Perhaps they should relax a little: in four minutes a night, they are not going to make anyone knowledgeable in Keynesian economics. All forms of journalism have their own point of satiety. Richard Salant, president of CBS News, says that Cronkite "has often said, but never meant" that he longs to end a broadcast...