Word: michael
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driven around London in a tan bulletproof Lincoln, stayed at the heavily guarded Winfield House, the elegant Regent's Park residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Senior members of his staff, like Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, did not fare nearly so well. Originally booked into Claridge's, the posh hostelry favored by Henry Kissinger, they had to revise their plans. Bent on frugality, Carter decreed that they join the rest of the U.S. party in the more modest Hotel Britannia. "He's tight...
...month of double-digit figures. That trend could be aggravated by rising steel costs, as two producers, Republic and Youngstown, raised prices 6.8% to 8.8% on many products. Otherwise, all signals were go. Unemployment dropped to 7% in April; that is the lowest figure in 29 months. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal estimates that U.S. GNP will rise 7% in the second quarter, v. 5.2% in the first. U.S. auto sales in April climbed 12.5% above a year earlier, and consumer credit in March made its biggest one-month gain ever-$2.7 billion. Industrial production in the U.S., a key measure...
...brothers' Gimme Shelter. The dazzling galaxy of performers who rocked and rolled the assembled 400,000 earned that designation by itself: everybody from John Sebastian to Country Joe and the Fish to Santana put in an appearance over the course of the three-day festival to end all festivals. Michael Wadleigh's integration of crowd scene footage into the basic frame work of the gig-by-gig sequence of bands has never been matched by any subsequent film chronicling the events of a music concert, rock or otherwise. Never has a three-hour chunk of celluloid flown by so quickly...
...Michael J. Curry '80, a member of the Bach Society Orchestra, said yesterday the orchestra would lose some of its best soloists if the faculty advisers refused to accept outside performers...
...city council's Ways and Means Committee and wants to reduce the finance commission's budget to the legally mandated $85,000 minimum. The seven remaining dated $85,000 minimum. The seven remaining councilors have not taken any actions to aid the friendless finance commission. City Council President Michael Connolly told Garguilo last year he would file a bill in the state legislature to raise the minimum to $150,000 and to require the state to pay half of this sum. Garguilo said of Connolly, "He never did it and he never returned my calls. Connolly went back...