Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to decide whether to continue running a daily risk of terror"-meaning, quite possibly, a refusal to fly to any country harboring skyjackers. Delegates representing 300,000 ground-crew workers in 23 countries, meanwhile, unanimously voted not to handle planes from nations that harbor known skyjackers after Jan...
SUDDENLY Europe's great expectations were diminished and the Common Market of ten nations that was to be created on Jan. 1 was cut to nine. By a decisive 53.9% to 46.1%, Norwegians in a special referendum last week rejected membership in the European Economic Community. The vote cast doubt on the outcome of Denmark's EEC referendum this week and raised the possibility of a "unified" Europe without Nordic participation...
...TIME'S Press section of Jan. 24, you reported the arrest of Courier-Journal Reporter Frank Ashley in Owsley County, Ky., on charges of impersonating a lawyer in order to interview prisoners in a jail. Ashley had earlier written several articles about nepotism in a federal job program in Owsley County. It was a clear case of a reporter being harassed by local officials who disliked his stories. Ashley came to trial, after a change of venue, in Lee County Circuit Court in June. The jury acquitted him of the charges after deliberating only 23 minutes...
...rigorously simple and familiar saga, The Emigrants is made eloquent through the tone and the telling. Director Jan Troell gives life and substance to what Willa Cather called "the precious, the incommunicable past." Indeed, at its best, The Emigrants has the same feeling for landscape and incident (a man proud of a pair of new black boots, a death and burial at sea) that glistens in Cather's best work...
That competition will become even sharper in the decade ahead. The Common Market is expected to be expanded from six nations to ten on Jan. 1. And Continental businessmen are watching with concern the emergence of a "Japanese challenge," as names like Toyota, Sony and Hitachi rise across Europe. Everywhere the conviction is growing that companies with conservative, nationalistic managements will be left behind in Europe's competitive leap forward-and that firms with impatient, internationally minded young executives will command the future...