Word: macke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is a first step Harvard University is duty-bound to divest its Gulf stock. Harvard University is duty-bound not to take reprisals against the Mack students in this building...
...translations, especially of "How to Survive" and "Pirate Jenny," are beginning to show their age. Blitzstein's lyrics do not fit the rhythm of the music as well as they should, and it may well be time for someone to try his hand at a new version. Blitzstein's "Mack the Knife," of course, will never be replaced, but the rest of his songs are uneven in quality. Jerry Lanning's interpretation of "Mack" owes a lot to Tony Bennett, and Judy Lander isn't Lotte Lenya, but they are both good night-club performers, and later...
...heavy end of the truck market, composed mainly of the construction and trucking firms, is also growing. The big three automakers produced 60% of the heavy trucks sold last year; the rest were turned out by International Harvester, White Motor Corp., Mack Trucks, Diamond Reo and other companies. The 7% investment tax credit has helped spur demand. So has the decline of train service, and the fact that 25,000 communities in the U.S. have no means of delivery service other than trucks. Industry leaders expect total sales to increase 50% by 1980 to $10 billion, a growth rate that...
...economic agreement under which trade will double to nearly $1 billion by 1976. It also calls on state-owned Renault to provide $222 million in technical assistance and equipment for the $1.2 billion Soviet truck plant on the Kama River; Moscow had tried unsuccessfully to get Ford, Mack Truck and Daimler-Benz to help...
Died. Chester Conklin, 85, silent-screen zany known to a generation of filmgoers as the Keystone Kop with the walrus mustache; of emphysema; in Hollywood. He went to work for Mack Sennett in 1913 and was soon thriving on pratfalls and pies in the face. While at the top, he earned $3,500 a week appearing in scores of films, including Tillie's Punctured Romance, The Pullman Bride and Modern Times. "Moviemaking was great fun then," recalled Conklin. "A picture consisted of a lot of chases and a plot that was tacked on when we finished shooting...