Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Knight Demarest...
From being so poorly understood that a confiscation of "red books" nets The Red and the Black and The Knight of the Red House, but misses Capital. Marxism emerges as the only political philosophy offering hopes of progress. The Student, a young popular leader who organizes the first general strike, comes to symbolize the Communist answer to the Head of State's corrupt method. Though he does not succeed in bringing about a popular revolution, near the end of the book The Student surfaces in Paris as he is leaving for the "First World Conference on Colonial and Imperialist Politics...
Three of the biggest U.S. electronics manufacturers decided this year to enter the lucrative market for what the song The White Knight described as "that Japanese toy, that trucker's joy." Most 1976 American cars can be bought with the sets installed; nearly half of all trucks in the U.S. are CB-equipped. The cost is relatively low-from about $90 to $350 for a serviceable set and antenna-and CB is simple to install in a truck, car or boat, drawing its power from the vehicle's battery. The same units can be plugged in at home...
According to a Nielsen rating, Reagan drew 17% of the national audience that had its sets on that night, running well behind The Blue Knight on CBS (33%) and ABC's Starsky and Hutch (43%). Even so, 13 million people saw some or all of a blistering attack on a Republican Administration by a leading Republican. Responding to an appeal for funds, viewers began sending in pledges that Reagan's men predicted would total "substantially" more than the $110,000 cost of the entire venture...
Gibson is also developing a loan program that could be used by other private universities to aid middle-income students. He says that the procedures the Knight company is setting up could easily be expanded to include more than one university. Gibson said he hopes that other schools will want to join Harvard if the PLP is a success next year...