Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Friday morning, Oct. 27, less than three days after the Stage II speech, it was obvious that the hope was in vain. Blumenthal phoned Carter and told him that something had to be done immediately to save the dollar.* The two huddled privately that afternoon following a Cabinet meeting. Carter told the Secretary to accelerate the planning but maintain deepest secrecy...
Last week Cronkite sent his RSVP: a telegram demanding that Sakowitz "cease and desist" advertising him as available. It turns out that the store had obtained the names from a speakers bureau that represents Cronkite, but the bureau had never cleared the idea with him. Just one less mouth to feed...
...reason for Dominica's push for independence was dissatisfaction with its status as a British "Associated State," which meant that it was something more than a colony but something less than a sovereign nation. As an Associated State, Dominica could not apply for international economic aid or help from any nation other than Britain. Now the island seems intent on attaching itself to every organization with an aid program. Says Dominica's Foreign Minister, Leo Austin, 50: "We will join the Organization of American States, the United Nations, World Bank, all of them...
...last week Britain got another T. and B. tabloid, a near clone of the Sun and Mirror. Express Newspapers Ltd., publishers of the once middlebrow and increasingly titillating Daily Express (circ. 2.5 million), launched the 32-page Daily Star (initial circ., 1.25 million). Selling for 6p (roughly 12?), slightly less than the Sun and the Mirror, the Star is being printed on underused Express presses in Manchester and distributed only in the North and the Midlands for the moment. Penetration of the rest of England is planned for the spring. Says Star Editor in Chief Derek Jameson...
...there were other concerns as well, having less to do with geopolitics than with campus politics. As announced by U.S.C. President John Hubbard, responsibility for the financial support of the center was to be vested in a three-man committee comprising a Los Angeles-area businessman, a U.S.C. dean and U.S.C. Professor Willard Beling, a former employee of Aramco (Arabian American Oil Co.) and holder of the Saudi-endowed King Faisal Chair of Islamic and Arab Studies. Beling would also become the center's director, and many of the faculty were fretting over his not being subject...