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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That attitude is now changing. Last week the nation's largest civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, released two policy papers that challenged Government regulations limiting free enterprise. In a sharp attack on President Carter's energy program, the N.A.A.C.P. called price controls on newly discovered oil and gas "incompatible" with supply needs and asked for more stress on development of nuclear power. Later, the organization attacked new fuel economy standards for trucks that had been proposed by the Department of Transportation...
...thrown the nation's ski industry into a tizzy. With rising insurance costs pressing into profits, at least four Vermont ski areas considered shutdowns this year, and one small slope in Underbill Center has remained closed despite generally good snow conditions. At one point, the nation's largest ski insurer, American Home Assurance Co., threatened to cancel its ski-area coverage in Vermont, a move that might have led to wholesale closedowns...
Landry's wit, dry and ironic, is saved for sportswriters and for speaking engagements that help the Cowboys' thoroughgoing public relations campaign. The same sense of detail that marks computerized scouting can be found in every phase of the Cowboy operation. The N.F.L.'s largest radio network, 133 stations, beams Cowboy games from Key West, Fla., to Thousand Oaks, Calif. A weekly newspaper published by the club has a lavish freebie list?including college trainers, so that prospects hanging around waiting for the whirlpool will have the Cowboys to read about...
...building could fill a page in The Guinness Book of World Records. The largest enclosed stadium in the world, it boasts a 9.7-acre roof, 9,000 tons of air conditioning, 32 escalators, ten elevators and 88 rest rooms. It has served more sit-down dinners in one place than any other caravansary in history: 65,000 meals in three days (Creole chicken, stuffed flounder and meat loaf) to the Lutheran Youth Gathering in August 1976. It has the world's largest roll-up rug, a 126,85 l-sq.-ft., zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly...
...known billionaire (only Shipping Tycoon Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, now remains); of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a dirt farmer and wandering evangelist, MacArthur bought Bankers Life & Casualty during the Depression for $2,500 and through mail-order techniques built it into America's second largest health and accident underwriter. Although he also had multimillion-dollar interests in other companies and in real estate, MacArthur maintained an eccentric and frugal existence, pocketing desserts he could not finish on airplane flights and picking up discarded soft drink bottles to turn in for their deposits. During the last...