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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Debt. The First Boston Corp., a top investment banking firm, reports that Seattle has the soundest budget and financial status of any of the 50 largest cities. The National Urban Coalition rates Seattle's bond issues tops on its own list of 25 big municipalities...
...rejectionist Arabs can denounce Sadat all they want, but basically they -and not Sadat-are the ones who face hard political choices. Egypt, with a population of nearly 40 million, is by far the most populous Arab state and has the largest army in the Middle East. Because of Sadat's cool relations with Moscow, Egypt's Soviet-supplied military machine is rundown and short of parts. Nonetheless, another Arab war against Israel would be possible only if Egypt joined in. Jordan has little air support for its small (85,000-man) but well-trained army. Roughly half...
...largest-selling Christmas record of all time, Bing Crosby's "White Christmas," was originally written--in Yiddish--as a lullaby for infirm children...
...what look like Magritte prints on the walls. Kristofferson is not a worldly-wise country boy but a tuned-out meditation freak. There might be a few people down there somewhere who meditate--Tom Landry maybe, but he's in Dallas, where he coexists with Dealy Plaza, the largest airport, and the largest Baptist church in the world. Dallas is a sick town...
...Angeles Herald-Examiner (circ. 338,000), once the nation's largest afternoon daily, is now the flagging ship of the Hearst chain, so far behind the Los Angeles Times (circ. 1,018,000) that to call the pair rivals is an overstatement. The Herald-Examiner has lost more than 400,000 readers in the past decade with its overblown headlines and underreported stories. The staff is so demoralized that even the scabs hired to break a strike ten years ago eventually went on strike. Said a Her-Ex staffer of his peers: "They're all running about...