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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the President was crisscrossing the country, Vice President Walter Mondale was also on the road, seeking money and support for 1980. His loyal labors in St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh became a touch less onerous in light of one of Carter's press conference statements. Asked who his running mate might be next year, the President did not duck the question. Said Carter: "Fritz Mondale and I have a very good partnership and I have no plans whatsoever to change...
...unpopular decisions. But now, says Jeanne Labrousse, director of the polling institute I.F.O.P.: "We have reached the point where discontent is so high that Barre cannot absorb it all himself." According to Jacques Attali, a leading Socialist economist, the reason is that Giscard and Barre can no longer promise light at the end of the austerity tunnel. Says Attali: "The French are losing hope." According to a survey in the business magazine L'Expansion, three out of four Frenchmen now believe that the economic crisis will be "enduring" rather than "transitory...
Large technology-based firms like IBM and Bell Labs are also sinking megabucks into research. Bell Labs will spend $1 billion on research this year, with large amounts going to develop fiber optics -systems that carry information in rays of light traveling through slender glass fibers rather than in electric currents moving through bulky cables. IBM's research budget this year will be $1.25 billion, and the company has become the first to master the mass production of a silicon memory chip small enough to pass through the eye of a needle yet able to store 64,000 bits...
Above all, Edison invented the first practical electric light, and a power-distribution system that put it cheaply into every home. Like much else about Edison, the precise date is in dispute, but the inventor himself remembered Oct. 21, 1879, as the day on which he began the test of the first successful light bulb...
...events. Albert B. Lord, Porter Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, reads "a variety of things, but at the moment I'm reading some Bulgarian short stories partly because of a paper I'm writing on fantasy and the occult." That's fine for a scholarly mood, but for light reading, Lord likes "mostly detective stories--occasionally science fiction...