Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.) along with fellow physician Dr. George Habash, and mastermind of many spectacular anti-Israeli terrorist acts, including the hijacking of four airliners in one operation in 1970 and the seizure of the Lufthansa airliner stormed by West German commandos at Mogadishu late last year; of an undisclosed illness; in East Berlin...
DIED. Dr. Charles Herbert Best, 79, co-discoverer of insulin; of a ruptured abdominal aorta suffered after learning that his son Alexander, 46, had died of a heart attack; in Toronto. In 1921 Best and the late Sir Frederick Banting began working on Banting's theory that the then fatal disease diabetes could be treated with a hormone from an animal pancreas. Holed up eight weeks in their lab, the two isolated insulin. Best later devised a method of drying and storing blood serum and pioneered development of the drugs histamine, heparin and choline...
Governors and mayors who might be embarrassed by big surpluses can take some ironic comfort in the thought that they will soon be dwindling. Higher spending and a probable slower rate of growth in the economy late this year will shrink the aggregate state-city surplus to somewhere between $5 billion and $10 billion in 1978. That is a tidy sum, but it gives officials less reason to keep federal deficits high...
...plant by late this year will crank out nearly 800 Rabbits a day (200,000 a year), employ 4,000 people, pay them $50 million annually and pump an additional $50 million into the local economy by stimulating employment in auto-related industries. Already, says Plant Manager Richard Cummins, VW is doing business with some 1,800 Pennsylvania firms. If all goes as planned, VW will be assembling its U.S. Rabbits mostly from U.S.-made parts by next year, with only engines and transmissions coming from Wolfsburg, West Germany. In economically depressed Lewistown, Pa., for example, C.H. Masland...
Speed: average. Throwing arm: mediocre. Potential: may have started too late to make it. Such a rating from a major-league batting instructor might cause some ballplayers to hang up their gloves. But in this case the instructor was Mickey Mantle and the player, Mickey Mantle Jr., who at 23 wants to give baseball "my best shot." Mickey Jr. played for a Florida military academy in his teens, but feeling that he was "too immature to cope with the pressures of being Mickey Mantle's son," went off to sell insurance in Dallas. Now trying out for a Yankee...