Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mamie Jones
Now, ten years later, the children's revolution of the '60s comes straggling back, startling to recognize in the summer of 1977. As if they had been flash-frozen in 1970, demonstrators at Kent State have been trying to prevent construction of a gym near the spot where...
Earlier this year, as the economic recovery picked up momentum, some savvy Wall Street professionals were predicting that stock prices would zoom and the Dow Jones industrial average would easily soar beyond the peak of 1,051.70 it reached in 1973. So much for savvy. Since January the stock averages...
Few bars remained open, and they were packed with thirsty people even though their ice supplies were rapidly melting. Said one woman who had visited three other bars before she stopped at P.J. Clarke's, a well-known East Side watering place: "We're typical New Yorkers. We're going...
So heavy is the concentration of communications operations in midtown Manhattan that the New York blackout had an impact that was immediately felt throughout the nation-and the world as well. All three networks transmit their signals from New York by air waves to relay towers and satellites-or by...