Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford also condemned violent crime and hard drug abuse during the hour-long talk. He recommended the hiring of 500 federal agents to aid local police forces to "stop criminals from selling and using hand guns...
...part, read the official announcement issued last week by Hsin-hua, the Chinese press agency. Soon after, it appeared again on the black-bordered front page of Peking's People's Daily; it was broadcast, preceded by solemn music, every half-hour on radio stations throughout China. In Peking, the elevator girl in an office building used by foreign journalists burst into tears when she heard the news. Headlines appeared in newspapers throughout the world, and messages of condolence started pouring into the Chinese capital. In a rare gesture of sympathy and respect, the flags at the U.S. consulate...
...debate over the potentially corrupting influences of television, South Africa last week was - in the words of one Johannesburg columnist - "dragged, kicking and screaming, into the TV age." More than a million view ers, mostly whites who paid up to $1,200 for color sets, watched the five-hour nightly programs, broadcast in both English and Afrikaans. They included Shane, the Bob Newhart Show, news broadcasts, a concert by the Orchestre de Paris and the film oldie Oklahoma...
...each slowly down a 3-oz. jigger of 50% ethanol, the form of alcohol in liquor. After a lapse of 90 minutes to allow total absorption of the alcohol into the bloodstream, they began taking blood samples from the subjects once every 30 minutes over a three-hour period. The tests invariably showed that the rates at which ethanol disappeared from subjects' bloodstreams did not differ by race. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers conclude that there is no significant difference in the way Indians and whites get (or don't get) stewed...
...43rd film. The movie, which will be titled A Matter of Time in English-speaking countries and Nina elsewhere, stars Bergman as an aged contessa and Liza Minnelli as a young hotel chambermaid enthralled by the older woman's reminiscences. Bergman, who still needs nearly an hour-long makeup job to affect the wrinkled look, says the contessa "is just the opposite of my own character because she is destroying herself by dreams of her youth." She adds, "I don't dream about my past. I accept my age and make the best...