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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helped found, Wells, Rich, Greene, Inc., is the advertising world's most heralded woman. Banker Catherine Cleary, president of First Wisconsin Corp., sits on the boards of A T & T, Kraftco and General Motors. Kay Knight Mazuy, senior corporate vice president of Shawmut Association Inc., New England's second largest banking firm, is an odds-on favorite to become Boston's first woman president of a major corporation...
...months ago, Fort Chaffee was the ninth largest city in Arkansas. Just before Christmas, 25 Vietnamese men, women and children boarded an army bus and headed for Tennessee, reducing the Fort's refugee population to zero. Three other resettlement camps, through which more than 130,000 Indo-Chinese refugees passed, are also virtual ghost towns. This week, the first phase of the $500 million-plus resettlement effort officially came...
...some 30 other members of their delegations to Algiers, Tripoli, and back to Algiers again before releasing them. No one aboard the plane was hurt, but three were killed and eight others wounded in the initial assault in Vienna. Salah Khalaf, the No. 2 man of Fatah, the largest Palestinian commando group, denounced the attack on OPEC'S headquarters as a "criminal act" designed to "undermine the nature of the Palestinian struggle at a time when it is producing major victories on the international level...
...Western Europe, the P.C.I, is acting as if it were already part of the government. As a result of their stunning triumphs in regional elections last summer (TIME, June 30), leftist administrations now control every major Italian city except Rome and Palermo. At the national level, although theoretically the largest opposition party, the Communists tacitly support the Christian Democratic government of Premier Aldo Moro. In fact, Moro's weak coalition Cabinet faces a bedeviling paradox: the Socialists, who are supposed to support the government, are increasingly at odds with it, while the opposition Communists help to keep the coalition...
...kinds of stores shared in the splurge. Among department stores, Federated, the nation's largest department-store chain, figured that its sales ran 10% to 11% ahead of last year's Christmas season. Bloomingdale's, its showpiece division (TIME cover, Dec. 1), posted a 20% gain. Rich's Inc. in Atlanta lifted sales 25% above the 1974 Christmas season and Detroit's J.L. Hudson Co. gained perhaps 10% over even 1973, the banner year for Christmas sales...