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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arizona's part-time legislators, who often supplement their income by working on the side for the corporations they are supposed to regulate. At the same time, the state senate also decided to reduce the crime of destroying corporate records to a misdemeanor, thereby eliminating one of the major investigative tools of reporters like the much-euologized but more often ignored Don Bolles...

Author: By Mark A. Feldstein, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Business As Usual | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...operator at the Harvard communications system said, "Every major office in the University called at some point to find out what was going on." As service was being restored "we were literally deluged with calls," said another Harvard communications official...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Computer Failure Causes 20-Minute Phone Breakdown | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...Windy City's grand tradition of grisly journalism reasserted itself with a vengeance. Two of the city's four major dailies have folded in the past few years, but the Tribune and Sun Times came through in classic Front Page form. On Christmas Eve, as workers began removing the first of 27 young male bodies from the crawlspace in John Gacy's basement, the old-fashioned battle was on. Until the New Year began, each day brought a new banner headline with either the words "Gacy" or "Body," or both...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

DENVER--In the first major union test of President Carter's wage-price guidelines, leaders of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic International Union rejected contract offers from 21 companies yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Union Officials Reject Offers Which Meet Carter Guidelines | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

...towns and rural America. Record numbers attended performances in larger cities. "Children's units" in many cities revolutionized children's entertainment; young Walt Disney was one who drew inspiration from Yasha Frank's Los Angeles performances. Groups like the Spanish unit in Florida and the "Negro units" in many major cities brought series theater to audiences who had been ignored and performers who had been stereotyped...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: Uncle Sam's Theater | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

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