Word: men
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if the measure is watered down or pigeonholed, the issue will come up again next year when a UNESCO commission of "wise men" led by former Irish Foreign Minister Sean MacBride completes an exhaustive study on the subject. In addition, the International Telecommunications Union will meet next fall to consider the first redistribution of world radio frequencies in 20 years. The frequencies are now dominated by the West and the Soviets. Third World nations are agitating for a better slice of the spectrum and for the right to block direct satellite broadcasting across national borders...
...with some pertinent statistics. In a 25-year overview of cancer mortality figures, it reported that cancer death rates seem to be leveling off and, for some forms of the disease, actually declining, as in the case of stomach cancer (down more than 60%), colon-rectum (down 5.6% for men, 22.5% for women) and uterine cancer (down 59.5%). But the death rate for lung cancer, which has been repeatedly linked to cigarette smoking, has grown by 200%. Cancer Society officials attribute at least part of that sharp rise to the great increase in the number of women smokers...
...guys working 16, 18 hours a day about to fall down at their desks. And the industry is having difficulty as these years kick in at two miles a gallon each. When the heat turns on through '82 and '83, it's going to separate the men from the boys...
...12th century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who wrote the first formal version of the Grail legend. Perceval (Fabrice Luchini), a Welsh lad of sublime simplicity, encounters five knights galloping after distressed damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads her advice and, finding a lady lounging happily...
...celebration might well be for all chamber music. Not so long ago, it was burdened with the image of four old men sawing away in rusty black suits. But over the past decade, as the performing arts boomed in the U.S., people discovered the intimate beauty of chamber music, and it burgeoned in popularity. On Dec. 10, it will receive the official blessing of national television, when Live from Lincoln Center (PBS) airs its first Chamber Music Society performance...